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Trilobites may be the archetypal fossils, symbols of an archaic world long swept beneath the ruthless road grader of time. But we should all look so jaunty after half a billion years. At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Brian T. ...

Whittier, Alaska, is a town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in a 14-story former Army barracks built in 1956. The building, called Begich Towers, holds a police station, a health clinic, a church, and a laundromat. Its hallways resemble ...

Hollywood’s war on piracy has reached a strange impasse. While the MPAA and others have launched lawsuits against US-based infringers, reaching offshore torrent sites like Isohunt and The Pirate Bay is still a slow process, and whenever a site is tak ...

Everyone's gotta eat.

Indonesia air traffic control lost contact with Air Asia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from the the Indonesian city of Surabaya was lost on Sunday morning.

Every time you get upset about something small, just remember this.

The NASA scientists, philosophers, and futurists who believe that the aliens we meet most likely won't be a life form at all.

A neat little tutorial.

Visible within a narrow band snaking across Asia and the Pacific Ocean, the totality of the eclipse lasted up to six minutes and 39 seconds, a duration that will not be surpassed until 2132. At Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where the first ...

What is "Goliath" and why are Hollywood’s most powerful lawyers working to kill it? In dozens of recently leaked emails from the Sony hack, lawyers from the MPAA and six major studios talk about "Goliath" as their most powerful an ...

The Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA's brutal interrogation tactics against detainees captured after the September 11, 2001, attacks is drawing mostly criticism from around the world.

Swiss ex fighter pilot, A380 Captain, Guinness Book record holder and first man to fly with a jet-propelled wing, Yves Rossy A.K.A. Jetman is back in the sky pushing the boundaries of aviation by completing a sensational formation flight with Aerobat ...

Microsoft, the famous multinational corporation that powers much of the world’s computing infrastructure with its Windows OS, now accepts Bitcoin online for its digital products. Microsoft users, in America only for now, can even fund their Microsoft ...

A major new study of the world's oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world. With a global population of about ...

He's back. Watch the new Terminator Genisys trailer starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Comedian Jay Leno chats with Letterman while he was guest hosting for Carson on July 4, 1979. The two became friends, then rivals, when Leno, not Letterman, replaced Carson in 1992.

Chris Burkard is well known as a unique visionary whose photography has the ability to catapult the viewer into the moment. At 27 years old, Chris has accomplished a style and composition all his own, leaving many to instantly recognize a "Burka ...

Follow hand-for-hand action from the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event here at PokerNews. Back in July, nine players navigated a field of 6,683 to reach the most prestigious final table in all of poker, the World Series of Poker Main Event...