Constantly losing energy is something we deal with in everything we do. If you stop pedaling a bike, it gradually slows; if you let off the gas, your car also slows. As these vehicles move, they also generate heat from friction. Electronics encounter a similar effect as groups of electrons carry information ...

Hollywood set designers make a career out of creating enchanted towers and mythic-looking castles for big-budget fantasy films. But if you visit one of the Great Lakes in the winter, you can often see those special effects in real life without spending a dime.

Here's a bad sign for Google's still-nascent Glass project from Glass-evangelist Robert Scoble

AT&T, it seems, reads the same T-Mobile rumors you do. At the Consumer Electronics Show next week, T-Mobile is expected to announce a new program that would give customers up to a $350 credit i...

The NSA is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world.

Panpsychism, the ancient doctrine that consciousness is universal, offers some lessons in how to think about subjective experience today

For almost every day last month Malaysian artist/architect Hong Yi (who often goes by the nickname Red) created a fun illustration made with common (and occasionally not so common) food. Her parameters were simple: the image had to be comprised entirely of food and the only backdrop could be a white plate.

Corning Inc. has a manufacturing process ready to begin molding its shatter-resistant smartphone glass covers into three-dimensional shapes, giving device makers new options for designing their products.

Man, oh man, the stuff you miss during the year when you’re too busy texting, making Angry Cat photos and unsuccessfully signing up for government health plans.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who admitted to once smoking crack cocaine while in a "drunken stupor", has filed re-election papers.

Robots are coming. This much is certain. The robots we have now are just the first tiny soldiers in an army of automated creatures that are coming. Will the robots be friendly? Or will they enslave us--or simply eliminate us?

Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east.

The charming visual tale of an introverted little boy who grew up to become the quintessential modern genius.

A 75-year-old Frenchman was feeding himself and chatting to his family more than a week after becoming the first person to be fitted with an artificial heart, one of his surgeons said.

Educators are largely opting for Chromebooks in the classroom over Apple MacBooks and Android tablets, a new study suggests. According to a report from research firm NPD Group, Google's low-cost Chromebook computers soared past Apple's MacBook line in terms of commercial sales, thanks largely due to growth in the education sector.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will sign his final bills into law today around 2 p.m., including new restrictions on e-cigarettes.

A 12-year study has confirmed that our Milky Way Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate that it has only two arms.

These impressive little appetizers come together quickly, making them perfect for entertaining. Refreshing cucumber provides a nice contrast to the rich crabmeat, so these bites feel light and eleg...

They can flow like a liquid and bounce back like a solid. Masses of fire ants show a duality that intrigues physicists.

This is going to sound silly, but I think Snapchat was the most important technology of 2013. It sounds silly because Snapchat is just an app. What's more, it's an app used primarily by teens and college students, and wasn't I telling you just a few weeks ago that young people aren't good predictors of tech success?

Neat but kind of creepy.

The Heart Nebula, cosmic clouds seem to form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805

A star bubble.

FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862, making it the oldest toy retailer in the US. Now, thanks to the Internet Archive, a brochure published in 1911 by the company's New York store — the inspiration for Home Alone 2's Duncan's Toy Chest — has been digitized.

One in three people have inherited a genetic variation that impairs their ability to remember faces, according to a study that could explain why some individuals recall everyone they have ever met while others have difficulty recognising their own relatives.

Human beings have altered the Earth so much that human extinction is a real possibility if people continue on their current path. But if they can figure out a way to live sustainably, at least some human civilizations could become quasi-immortal, one researcher says.

These 10 robots with dirty jobs take on tasks that would make even Mike Rowe shudder.

The question as to who killed the radio star has finally been answered — it wasn’t killed, it committed suicide by changing itself into a black hole, just like many other radio stars. According to researchers in a December 20 press release, a certain kind of radio star turns off its radio transmission prior to going ka-bloo-ie, falling in upon itself, and changing into a black hole, while other radio stars turn into neutron stars.

Australian and US researchers have developed a compound which reverses muscle ageing in mice, saying it could be one of the keys to reversing ageing in humans.

A scuba diver off the coast of Argentina snapped a series of incredible pictures this week of a pair of southern right whales lurking menacingly close beneath a tiny boat of whale watchers. Do whale watchers ever die in collisions with whales?