Christmas is still a few weeks away but it’s never too early to start getting ready for this major holiday. There are lots of things to consider and, of course, decorations take center stage. To make your home look more welcoming and to add a personal touch to this year’s décor you can try making some of the decorations yourself.

The world's smallest airport has a size of 150m² and is the newest section of the Miniatur Wunderland. After six years and 150.000 working hours, the Knuffingen Airport has been in operation for a few weeks now.

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Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can...

India's first mission to Mars left Earth's orbit early on Sunday, clearing a critical hurdle in its journey to the red planet and overtaking the efforts in space of rival Asian giant China.

The night watchman of the future is 5 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and looks a lot like R2-D2 – without the whimsy. And will work for $6.25 an hour.

Scientists from the CDMS dark matter detection project in Minnesota (USA) and from the CUORE neutrino observatory at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy have begun to use them, but archaeologists have raised alarm about the destruction and trading of cultural heritage that lies behind this. The journal ‘Science’ has expressed this dilemma formulated by two Spanish researchers in the United Kingdom.

A nice place to visit on days like today.

One of the best and most memorable games of all time. RNA is one of those games that helped define an entire gaming generation. It combined some of the most memorable music of all time with near flawless gameplay and incredibly advanced 16-bit graphics to give us a taste of gaming euphoria few titles can match to this day. Calling this a classic would be an understatement. Rocket Knight Adventures is a gaming legend, right up there with Zelda: A Link to the Past and Metal Gear Solid.

In Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, humanity escapes a gritty dystopia by donning VR goggles and entering a virtual world called OASIS. Back here in a comparatively rosy 2013, we don’t have a fully immersive virtual experience—yet. But virtual reality is undergoing a renaissance. And while Oculus develops a consumer-ready virtual reality headset, Second Life creator, Philip Rosedale, and his latest startup, High Fidelity, are hard at work constructing a next-generation global virtual world.

15 surreal works of art by Erik Johansson, using great photography, a creative mind and Photoshop. You might have come across some of these pictures before, floating about the internet without any attribution, I know I have. Delve into strange worlds created by Erik Johansson.

For many, the 2003 comedy Bad Santa has become essential Christmas viewing, and it seems we won't have too much longer to wait for the long-rumoured sequel, with star Billy Bob Thornton revealing that filming on the festive follow-up is due to shoot next year.

The controversial discovery of 68-million-year-old soft tissue from the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex finally has a physical explanation. According to new research, iron in the dinosaur's body preserved the tissue before it could decay.

I hope he's not that polite in prison.

Piloting fighter jets, floating in zero gravity and spinning at a belly-flattening speed in a centrifuge are not the things a regular tourist is asked to do before a dream holiday.

Now that you’ve perfected making the ultimate pumpkin pie (high five!) it’s time to start wow-ing with another sweet seasonal delight: Christmas cookies! To us, it’s a tradition as significant as a holiday tree, so we made sure to round up 25 amazing Christmas cookie recipes for you to make as soon as December hits. Yep—that means one batch of cookies every day through Christmas. At that rate, there’s no way you won’t make Santa’s nice list! ;)

The latest version of the web's favorite email client comes with a host of new features, ready to help you reach Inbox Zero. But with new updates rolling out every month or so, it's hard to keep track of the latest tools. Just when you think you know it all, one little change can completely impact your whole experience.

Unraveling the ever-changing World Wide Web to find the very best websites can be a daunting and time consuming task. Or, you could just ask Reddit.

A GIF journey through space.

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This exotic plant from Southeast Asia has a massive bloom that emits an odor of decaying flesh. The plant is being adopted as a cash crop because of its large edible root. Scroll down the page for the full gallery of photos.

Tiny Animals on Fingers is a Flickr set curated by Specklet that delivers exactly what you'd expect—adorable pint-sized creatures resting on mere fingertips.…

It's rumored to have 640 to 670 horsepower, thanks to an upgraded version of the M5's direct-injected 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8. It can go 0-62 in about 3 seconds, is made from materials such as carbon fiber and titanium -- which could give it the best power-to-weight ratio of any BMW street car - and is the first supercar from the blue-spinner crew since 1981.

Apparently, zombie movies aren't that far from reality... at least once a year!

We all love tech here – we did make a website devoted to it, after all. But there’s a fine line between loving your tech and loving your tech too much. After much consideration, I’ve realized that I fall on the wrong side of the line between tech sanity and tech obsession. I definitely love tech too much. Do you? Here are four warning signs to look out for.

Jupiter’s signature Great Red Spot is sort of the Doctor Who of storms: It just won’t die — even when it has been proven that it must die. And now, for the first time, some fluid dynamicists have finally hit on some of the secrets to the giant storm’s longevity.

Today I found out that during the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that to minimize any foreseeable delay in launching a nuclear missile, for nearly two decades they intentionally set the launch codes at every silo in the US to 8 zeroes.

Not only are Black Friday sales less than they’re cracked up to be, the day-after-Thanksgiving national shop-a-thon is getting dangerous. Starting late on Thursday night, Anonymous-linked Twitter account @YourAnonNews began encouraging Twitter users to document fights seen outside retailers open for for the holiday using the hashtag #WalmartFights.

Today was unlike any other. To describe it in one word, hectic.

Got uber bored during exams a while ago and decided to try my hand at making some music. Inventive procrastination?