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Image overload: Help us sort it all out, NASA requests updated 1 days ago

NASA is asking for your help analyzing hundreds of thousands of images that astronauts have taken from space.

Trash palaces: The spectacular houses built from scrap updated 1 days ago

From Islands to hotels and treehouses, ideal homes from waste materials

Can this brain-sensing headband give you serenity? updated 1 days ago

Could this brain-mapping headband help users achieve a state of zen-like calm?

Apparently This Matters: The beauty of big trucks updated 1 days ago

CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at the beauty of construction equipment.

See the UFO? No? Try squinting. Squint harder updated 3 days ago

See the UFO? No? Try squinting. UFO enthusiasts found interesting specks on recently deployed NASA webcams.

Have you gotten 'the talk' that Ferguson shooting protesters are posting about? updated 4 days ago

If you're African-American, you might have gotten "the talk."

Social Web tackles the #IceBucketChallenge updated 5 days ago

The #IceBucketChallenge takes on ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. Celebrities, athletes are posting videos of dumping buckets of ice water on social media.

Twitter reviewing policies after Robin Williams' daughter harassed updated 5 days ago

Actress Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams, has quit social media after receiving taunts on the Internet.

For the first time ever, a woman wins mathematics' highest honor updated 5 days ago

For the first time in history, a woman has received the highest honor in mathematics, often nicknamed the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

Black hole bends light, space, time -- and NASA's NuSTAR can see it all unfold updated 6 days ago

NASA's NuSTAR telescope array has observed a supermassive black hole's gravity tugging on X-ray light.

Is this the future of parenting? updated 6 days ago

Babies are unpredictable, messy and constantly changing. Sleep-deprived parents struggling to make sense of their tiny humans' behaviors are starting to take a scientific approach, collecting data in the hopes of solving problems like not sleeping through the night.

It's not a man's world: The African women breaking down tech barriers updated 7 days ago

Female techies across Africa are joining forces to help each other break the glass ceiling in a largely male-dominated industry.

Spy satellites fighting crime from space updated 7 days ago

Satellite-based surveillance is set to transform law enforcement, but will the good guys suffer as well as the crooks?

Google Lunar X Prize: Build a robot, send it to the moon, win $20 million updated 8 days ago

Google is shooting for the stars by sponsoring an international competition for innovators to go back to the moon 42 years after man last visited.

Facebook makes games reveal charges, quit inflating 'likes' updated 11 days ago

Facebook games must note in-app purchase, can't give rewards for a like of their Facebook page.

Apparently This Matters: Congratulations! It's a ... zonkey? updated 11 days ago

CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at what happens when a zebra and a donkey make whoopee.

The spaceship reinvented for new frontiers updated 11 days ago

Radical redesign is 100% reusable, offering more frequent, cheaper and deeper flights into space.

Hackers put data of U.S. government workers at risk updated 12 days ago

USIS, which provides background checks for the U.S. government, said hackers breached its computer systems.

New software targets 'ransomware' used to steal millions updated 12 days ago

Two tech companies are offering a free tool to defeat sophisticated malicious software that criminals have used to extract millions of dollars in ransom payments from small businesses and other computer owners.

Startup offers payday advances without the pesky loan-sharking updated 12 days ago

A new service lets workers access pay they've already earned, without having to wait for payday.

Eavesdropping with a camera and potted plants updated 12 days ago

Before you spill your deepest darkest secrets, or plans for world domination, look around you. Is there a gossipy potato chip bag or leafy houseplant?

Will bigger iPhones end great one-hand games? updated 13 days ago

Bigger iPhone 6 models could be end of gaming apps that are simple and only require one hand to play.

Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' is the size of Connecticut updated 14 days ago

The Gulf of Mexico's annual spring-summer "dead zone" is the size of Connecticut -- slightly smaller now than in recent years.

Anonymous email app launches with 'creepy' stunt updated 14 days ago

The creators of an app that helps people send anonymous emails are coming under fire for a PR stunt that didn't quite go as planned.

Instagram celebrity Grandma Betty dies of lung cancer updated 15 days ago

Instagram celebrity Grandma Betty has died at 80 of lung cancer.

NASA's next Mars rover will make oxygen, look for farmland updated 16 days ago

NASA's next rover to Mars will make oxygen and look for farmland.

Voyager 1: 'The little spacecraft that could' updated 17 days ago

For 37 years, it has revealed the secrets of our solar system. Here's how Voyager 1 made history.

Apparently This Matters: MANternity photos updated 17 days ago

CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at delightfully weird set of maternity photos -- of a dude.

Hitchhiking robot is halfway across Canada updated 18 days ago

A talking robot, hitchBOT, is hitchhiking across Canada from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia.

Five years on, millions still dig 'FarmVille' updated 19 days ago

It started out as a simple concept five years ago. Let people become virtual farmers. And "Farmville" became a social media and gaming phenomenon.

Does your Facebook feed have a Middle East bias? updated 19 days ago

Writer worries that many of his friends are only seeing the news of the Mideast conflict through a Facebook filter.

The undersea drones revealing the ocean's secrets updated 20 days ago

From typhoon warnings to exploration and conservation, unmanned vessels are revealing the mysteries of the oceans.

Facebook: Get Messenger app or else updated 21 days ago

For mobile users who text with friends via Facebook, it's almost time to download the social-media giant's dedicated app for doing so, or lose the ability.

NASA maps out geysers, finds evidence of liquid water on surface of Saturn moon updated 21 days ago

On the surface of one of Saturn's icy moons, scientists have discovered the possible existence of a very important, life-sustaining element: liquid water.

Apparently This Matters: French Girls gone wild updated 24 days ago

CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini looks at why the French Girls app has gone wild.

That was a close one! Study: Massive solar storm barely missed us in 2012 updated 25 days ago

Nearly two years ago, modern infrastructure came very close to a serious disruption. The culprit? One of the largest solar storms in recorded history.

Repairing yourself: Self-healing buildings, bodies, and machines updated 25 days ago

Crumbling buildings, burnt-out PCs, potholes, and cracked smartphone screens -- all these damaged goods could soon be distant memories, as a new generation of "self-healing" technologies emerge.

Robot furniture that builds itself updated 26 days ago

Researchers are creating robots that are building blocks for furniture that moves and assembles itself.

Now you feel it, now you don't: Nanomaterial cloaks the sense of touch updated 27 days ago

A real invisibility cloak may still be the stuff of fantasy, but scientists have figured out a way to hide objects from touch.

Out of this world: The best selfies from space updated 28 days ago

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin says he took the first "space selfie" in 1966 -- and in doing so, he started a space selfie trend.

Apparently This Matters: Facebook bracelets at Tomorrowland updated 32 days ago

CNN humor columnist Jarrett Bellini explains the Facebook bracelets being worn by sexy people at Tomorrowland.

12 more real people who appeared in video games updated 32 days ago

Real people in video games have always been around, long before Manuel Noriega sued "Call of Duty: Black Ops II."

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