Wikipedia has been forced to ban users inside the US Congress building from making edits to the collaborative encyclopedia, after at least one member of staff began trolling the site. A number o...

Egyptian teenagers are on a roll lately – if they’re not proposing the next-generation of space propulsion systems, then they’re figuring out how to use the country’s plastic waste for fuel! Sixtee...

As a child of 8yrs. with my dad witnessed a lightning event that can change the world. It dumped a shiny blue liquid (LOx) that fogged up our back yard while sending a huge red cloud (electrons) th...

We were wondering the same thing... Apple moved 35.2 million iPhones this quarter, generating $19.75 billion in sales—a sum larger than Amazon's last reported quarterly revenue. Stack Google and...

The latest unemployment numbers show that “quantitative easing” is not benefiting the average American. It is increasingly obvious that the Fed’s post-2008 policies of bailouts, money printing, ...

What happens when you cross a helicopter with a motorbike? "We combined the simplicity of a motorbike and the freedom of a helicopter to create the world's first flying motorcycle" said Chris Mallo...

This Russian sex satellite with mating geckos was lost in space. Control was finally regained on Saturday night, while the partying lizards were distracted. Russian officials estimate that 90 pe...

The science behind the “tortured genius” myth and what it reveals about how the creative mind actually works. Nancy C. Andreasen, PhD, author of *The Creating Brain* wondered about the social fo...

Travelers at Dusseldorf Airport don’t even have to park their cars anymore. The idea is to get business travelers in and out of an airport as quickly and easily as possible. A driver can pull i...

Google has added another item to its lengthy list of services, and this one is something you really wouldn’t expect. Google’s Street View cars that map roads across the world are also being used to...

Why does the U.S. rank so poorly in energy efficiency? This is according to 2014 scorecard released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) today. Sixteen nations were s...

To most this may look like a fireworks display but to war hardened vets this will bring back memories they may not want. Trench warfare is a TOUGH game and not for the faint at heart. World W...

The tools we currently have to detect cancer, such as colonoscopies and biopsies, are expensive, invasive and painful. So a team of researchers led by Diana Anderson, professor of biomedical scienc...

EFF is releasing an experimental hacker alpha release of wireless router software specifically designed to support secure, shareable Open Wireless networks. We will be officially launching the Open...

A pair of trucks convoying 10 meters apart on Interstate 80 just outside Reno, Nevada, might seem like an unusual sight—not to mention unsafe. But the two trucks doing this a couple of weeks ago we...