The Pact Between the Sons of Hitler's Nephew Never to Have Children.

Fabian Oefner photographs breathtaking images at the nexus of art and science. Here, a look at his work and the phenomena it captures.

A US company says it will have a nuclear-powered prototype vehicle on the road within two years. Laser Power Systems from Connecticut is developing a method...

The European Space Agency has unveiled plans to "take 3D printing into the metal age" by building parts for jets, spacecraft and fusion projects.

The world needs a four-wheeled hero. Superman with a diesel heart, the ability to ford rivers in a single bound, and more ground clearance than an elephant on stilts. It's here and it's simply called the Rescue, and we desperately -- desperately -- need one in our fleet.

The most impressive pictures from the last seven days, including robotic firefighters, solar car races and extreme weather.

A well-known photo shows children playing with worthless Germany money. At inflation's peak, 1 dollar traded at 4.2 trillion Deutsche Marks.

Insect’s bloated abdomen carries traces of blood molecules that are 46-million-years old.

Although we’ll have to wait to discover what innovations Google’s secret “X lab” holds for the future, the company does have at least one bleeding-edge venture it wants to unveil to the public right now. In partnership with NASA, Google has embarked on a project to use a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer to tackle some of our biggest computational problems.

Imagine the situation when you see a dreadful scene occurring in front of your eyes. How would your eyes look like. There is no doubt in acknowledging that your eyes would be shut wide open. The same has happened to the animals shown in this article. With their eyes bulging...

Christopher Columbus became the face of a celebration of Italian heritage, amid discrimination.

London-based sculptor Ron Mueck, formerly a model maker and puppeteer for children's television and films, has been creating fine art sculptures since 1996

Climate change is a global problem, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to hit us all the same time. If you live in Moscow, scientists estimate that your local climate will depart from the historical norm in the year 2063. In New York, that date is the year 2047. And if you happen to reside in Mexico City or Jakarta, those numbers are 2031 and 2029, respectively.

Full Screen Mario is Josh Goldberg's complete remake of the classic Super Mario Brothers in HTML5. You can play re-creations of the original levels, make your own in an HTML5-based level editor, or play any of an infinite number of randomly generated levels. The code is on GitHub for your happy hacking, too. It's a pretty impressive example of what HTML5, in-browser functionality can do.

What's the most badass picture of you as a kid? Maybe that time you pretended to lift a truck that was having a tire changed. Or that other time your family ran into Mike Tyson on vacation and you pretended to knock him out. Both these instances ended in tears. But, more to the point, the keyword in all these photos is "pretended" -- something that the kids from before the invention of color photography didn't need to do to look like total badasses.

If reports in the Chinese press are to be believed, Sony’s next-gen games console may be being assembled using some very outdated labor practices. According to Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily, thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s Yantai plant assembling the Sony Playstation 4.

The Internet we each see every day is an infinitesimally tiny sliver of the whole—the parts we have curated for ourselves, the parts our network of friends and family sends to us, and the sites that we have made parts of our routines.

A strange new substance has unexpectedly emerged from a university lab in Germany: a two-dimensional quasicrystal, consisting of 12-sided, non-repeating atomic units. The quasicrystalline film, described today in Nature, is the first example of a 2-D semi-ordered crystal

Saudi women are increasingly getting behind the wheel in defiance of a driving ban ahead of a nationwide campaign planned by female activists for later this month, witnesses said.

NASA pioneer astronaut Scott Carpenter died Thursday at the age of 88 due to medical complications from a recent stroke.

Do you own a portly pooch or a corpulent kitty? Unfortunately, the answer in the United States is all too likely to be yes. Nearly one in every four dogs and cats in the United States is overweight or obese, according to recent numbers tallied by the Banfield Pet Hospital. The problem is so pervasive that the Association for Pet Obesity has declared today (Oct. 9) National Pet Obesity Awareness Day.

Celeste Cooks: Fall in love with Brussel Sprouts!

North Korea took fresh aim at the United States Wednesday over a three-nation naval drill, accusing it of “serious military provocation” and branding the exercise an “attack on our efforts for peace”. The planned drill in waters around the Korean peninsula involves South Korea, Japan and the United States, which has deployed the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington.

The air is getting crisper, the nights are getting longer, and All Hallow’s Eve draws near. You know what that means: it’s time to curl up with a book guaranteed to give you the shivers..

An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only six times that of Jupiter. The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago—a newborn in planet lifetimes.

Researchers from Canada and the U.S. are working in an emerging field in psychology that examines how humans' emotions interact with our bodies to guide behaviour.

Consciousness is the greatest, most troubling mystery in science. Don’t believe the hype: the Hard Problem is here to stay..

Researchers have found two genetic mutations associated with an increased risk for eating disorders

A Walk on the Dark Side is a timelapse showcase of places in the Western United States. Music: Rallying the Defense by machinimasound.com

Ross Ulbricht's former housemates never knew about his alleged activities as the Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts. They only knew him as "Josh."