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Using raw images from NASA’s website, space nerd Karl Sanford constructed this short time-lapse video that features highlights of the Curiosity Rover’s visit to Mars.
The human brain is a masterpiece of design, which enables us to focus very deeply on a subject.
It was actually “physics envy” that got us in trouble in the first place.
Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be passing Earth today at 4:59 p.m. Eastern, at a distance of 3.6 million miles, or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Who says Russian oligarchs have bad taste? Dmitri Rybolovlev bought Donald Trump’s 33,000-square-foot Palm Beach mansion for $85 million in 2008, and the fertilizer mogul is now planning to tear it down.
The Miami-Dade Police have some explaining to do after a cell phone camera captured officers assaulting an unarmed 14-year old named Tremaine McMillan.
If you own Tesla’s Model S electric car, you can travel for free along well-traveled highways in North America by accessing strategically placed supercharge stations.
YouTube user styropyro, aka, The DIY Laser Guy, has made a DIY lightsaber that can burn through a variety of objects.
Manhattanhedge is a two-day event when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid.
Researchers have developed a robot that observers your body movements and maps them against 120 household activities.
Michael Markieta is a transportation planner who developed this visualisation of global flight paths.
What makes a meme useful and what makes it actionable is when you cluster multiple things that look similar together and you begin to analyze the patterns and you begin to quantify it.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey released this image of workers at vertigo-inducing heights as they work to complete the “crown jewel of lower Manhattan,” One World Trade Center.
In his commencement address at Rice on May 11, Neil deGrasse Tyson channeled Kennedy, saying how our thirst to explore is what drives innovation.
In honor of Bob Dylan’s 72nd birthday today, we are sharing 5 of our favorite Dylan mind memes among the thousands that can be found in his body of work.
A luxury apartment building is now under construction in Taiwan, and its design was inspired by the double helix of the DNA molecule.
Does Obama have the right to kill Americans with drones?
This animation shows the GOES-13 visible imagery during the daylight hours of the 20th.
How does modern technology intersect with ancient spirituality?
We feel entitled to photograph everything, everywhere we go.
Is extreme weather the new normal?
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‘Robocop-style’ glasses with facial recognition cameras will be deployed at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, making the games “one of the most protected sports events in history.”
The good news is that the asteroid, which was discovered 15 years ago, will get “no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon,” according to NASA.
David Foster Wallace’s classic 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College was not well known until after his death. In the video below, this great piece of life advice is given visual accompaniment courtesy of The Glossary.
CERN and TED-Ed have collaborated on a great animation that explains the basics of the Higgs boson.
“Look out Facebook!” Tweeted Rupert Murdoch on the occasion of Facebook’s one-year anniversary of its botched IPO.
Researchers believe this cave painting may turn out to be over 40,000 years old, old enough to outdate modern humans.
Drones aren’t just the instruments of a tyrannical government that wants to kill its own citizens. Drones have an artistic side too.
When you think of a prosthetic limb, the first thing that comes to mind is not beauty. After all, these are products that are made by engineers, not designers.