Life

Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.

Today in a rather out of character, but incredibly hilarious, move the C.D.C posted a how-to-guide on surviving a Zombie Apocalypse. The motive? To make the usual hum-drum press releases a little more entertaining.

Amazon, since April 1, has sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books. While this is a milestone for e-books and Amazon, digital copies of books still only make up 14% of all books sold. Still, the fact this milestone happened this fast, has Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezoz smiling ear to ear.

The astronomers, led by Takahiro Sumi if Osaka University in Japan, reported in the journal Nature there are hundreds of billions of planets that have been orphaned by their planetary systems. The planets have either been completely ejected out of orbit, meandering through space, or are distantly bound to their stars at a distance at least 10 times that of the Earth's distance from the Sun.

The Sony scorecard keeps improving. A new exploit allows hackers or anyone with the proper information for that matter, to change any accounts password on Playstation.com.

Research, in an amazing twist, shows marketers and executives might not know what they're talking about when giving advice on how to make something "go viral."

Researchers at MIT and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have discovered it takes only a single cell to rebuild a fully functioning flatworm.

Likely forged in the fires of Mordor, this feat of snack engineering has now supplanted its Oreo brethren, the double-stuffed, as the ruler of Candyland.

Researchers at UC-Davis believe that there are a number of species of ancient dinosaur that were nocturnal, meaning they spent their conscious hours at night.

We've all heard that apples keep you healthy, but now we have actual scientific evidence to support such a claim. Surprised it took this long, eh?