Researchers shut down the extra chromosome responsible for Down's syndrome, paving the way for future treatments.

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Popular website Visual.ly has published an infographic that chronicles the history of science fiction computer interface design over the past 50 years. This detailed infographic starts at 1965, where it was imagined with anthropomorphic robots, up ti ...

Straight from a fairy tale

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, is one of the most profound — yet speculative — scientific pursuits of this generation. There is no evidence that any extraterrestrial life exists in our galactic neighborhood, yet we still try t ...

Cool compilation of the hit Daft Punk track played in each decades style.

If you’d like less government surveillance, the alternative answer to political control is more competition in the industries that handle and store information.

Five years since the crash, the big banks continue to screw over their customers.

OK guys, we gotta do another take!

We're not sure what exactly the following stories say about mankind, other than that none of us really know what we're doing.

I consumed nothing but Soylent, a food-replacing beverage, for a week. Here's what happened to me (and my poop).

But who's behind the "Fappy the Dolphin" hoax?

Calling it perhaps the biggest money-laundering scheme in U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people Tuesday with running what amounted to an online, underworld bank that handled $6 billion for drug dealers, child pornographers, identity ...

Same guy that started the Amy's Bakery fiasco?

The yearbook committee has failed.

Google just launched an on-demand subscription music service at I/O called "Google Play Music All Access". Its web and mobile interfaces feature millions of songs you can play instantly, recommendations, charts and playlists, and instant ra ...

Stack it together to make it look like a cheeseburger.

Most of the time, shootings in strip clubs are rare occurrences, the result of a drunk who’s thrown out of the club and comes back with a gun for revenge.