Space

Tech

The Newest Alien Detection Tool Can Sense Cellular Vibrations

12.29.14

By Michael Byrne
Travel

Photographer Captures the Many Faces of the Moon in 2014

12.29.14

By Emerson Rosenthal
Tech

Life Aboard the Potsdam Gravity Potato

12.28.14

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Meet the Slimeballs and Worms Calling the Undersea Arctic Home

12.27.14

By Michael Byrne
Please Build a Cloud City Over Venus

12.22.14

By Beckett Mufson
Tech

The Year That Made Space Exploration Look Easy

12.22.14

By Victoria Turk
Tech

Re-Entering Earth’s Atmosphere Is a Brutal, Beautiful Ride

12.21.14

By Michael Byrne
Tech

The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots

12.19.14

By Maddie Stone
Tech

NASA Celebrates 15 Years of Mesmerizing Space GIFs

12.18.14

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

The Top 10 Discoveries of 2014, According to ‘Science’

12.18.14

By Ben Richmond
Pulse

NASA Discovery Shows There Might be Little Green Microbes on Mars

12.17.14

By John Dyer
Tech

Humanity’s Next Home May Be Underwater

12.17.14

By Maddie Stone

The Latest

Gaming

Netflix’s New ‘Conjuring’ Game Lets You Decide Who Makes It Out Alive. Here’s How It Works.

From the ‘Until Dawn’ studio, Netflix’s new horror game turns your phone into ghost-hunting gear and lets you decide who survives.

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By Brianne Garbutt
Gaming

3 Upcoming DLCs That Could Pull You Back Into Games You Already Own

‘DayZ,’ ‘Brotato,’ and ‘Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds’ have new DLC coming, with desert survival, jungle combat, and a Godzilla track.

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By Brianne Garbutt
Science

The Ocean Floor Has Rocks That Can Set Themselves on Fire. Here’s How It Works.

USGS researchers found that some seafloor rocks spontaneously combusted during lab handling, revealing a potential mining hazard.

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By Luis Prada
Life

A Small Texas Town Just Built a 19-Foot-Long Wiener Dog Statue. Here’s Why.

Buda, Texas, unveiled a 19-foot-long steel dachshund inspired by its wiener dog races—and a giant ball of twine in Minnesota.

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By Luis Prada
Science

A New Search for Amelia Earhart’s Plane Is Underway on an Island With Giant Flesh-Eating Crabs

A 17-person team is investigating a possible plane wreck on Nikumaroro, an island home to enormous crabs with a grisly reputation.

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By Luis Prada