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FYI: Why Do We Get Goosebumps and Chills When We’re Scared?
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FYI: Why Do We Get Goosebumps and Chills When We’re Scared?

Thrilling Wonder, This Weekend In New York and London
Science

Thrilling Wonder, This Weekend In New York and London

New X Prize Is a Race To Sequence the Genomes of One Hundred One-Hundred-Year-Olds
Science

New X Prize Is a Race To Sequence the Genomes of One Hundred One-Hundred-Year-Olds

How do centenarians live so long? And how fast can we sequence?

Video: Supercooled Quantum Levitating Hoverboard Lets Students Glide on Air
Energy

Video: Supercooled Quantum Levitating Hoverboard Lets Students Glide on Air

iPod Creator Introduces Cute Home Thermostat That Learns Your Habits
Technology

iPod Creator Introduces Cute Home Thermostat That Learns Your Habits

Can an ex-Apple creative do what Microsoft and Google couldn't?

Gallery: Last Night’s Auroras as They Appeared from Across the Hemisphere
Technology

Gallery: Last Night’s Auroras as They Appeared from Across the Hemisphere

Orbiting Robot Will Gather Space Junk and Turn It Into New Satellites
Technology

Orbiting Robot Will Gather Space Junk and Turn It Into New Satellites

To Save Fuel, Cars Will Drop Off Drivers, Then Search For Parking Spaces on Their Own
Technology

To Save Fuel, Cars Will Drop Off Drivers, Then Search For Parking Spaces on Their Own

No more circling the block

Inside the DIY Weapons Workshop of the Libyan Rebels
Weapons

Inside the DIY Weapons Workshop of the Libyan Rebels

A visit to one of the makeshift arms factories that helped liberate the country

Chinese Rare Earth Company Strokes Mustache, Cuts Off World’s Access to Rare Earths to Inflate Prices
Technology

Chinese Rare Earth Company Strokes Mustache, Cuts Off World’s Access to Rare Earths to Inflate Prices

How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets
Exoplanets

How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets

Germany’s ROSAT Satellite Could Come Crashing Down Somewhere On Earth As Soon As Friday
Technology

Germany’s ROSAT Satellite Could Come Crashing Down Somewhere On Earth As Soon As Friday

The World’s Most Complete, High-Res Topographic Map Gets an Update
Space

The World’s Most Complete, High-Res Topographic Map Gets an Update

The view from above just grew clearer

Video: MIT’s X-Ray Vision System Can See Straight Through Concrete Walls
Military

Video: MIT’s X-Ray Vision System Can See Straight Through Concrete Walls

The New World’s Thinnest Phone: The Motorola Droid RAZR
Gear

The New World’s Thinnest Phone: The Motorola Droid RAZR

SETI’s Seth Shostak on How, When, and Where We Will Meet Aliens
Science

SETI’s Seth Shostak on How, When, and Where We Will Meet Aliens

And whether they'll look like E.T.

The Search for Alien Life Is On
Space

The Search for Alien Life Is On

New missions and discoveries on Earth, within our solar system and beyond are bringing us closer than ever to finding alien life on other planets

Video: The Motion-Sensing Banking App We’ve All Been Waiting For
Technology

Video: The Motion-Sensing Banking App We’ve All Been Waiting For

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Might Be Explained By GPS Failing to Account For Special Relativity
Particle Physics

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Might Be Explained By GPS Failing to Account For Special Relativity

A possible victory for Einstein

Virgin Galactic Announces Completion of Spaceport America, the World’s First Commercial Spaceport
Technology

Virgin Galactic Announces Completion of Spaceport America, the World’s First Commercial Spaceport