Life

Tom Pinckney, co-founder of SiteAdvisor and founder of Hunch, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In fact, his application was so impressive that he was accepted to MIT without ever completing high school.

Have you ever wondered what happened with those giant booster rockets once a shuttle is launched? ... seriously? Well, today's your lucky day, then!

It's official: "E-mail," the term used since the inception of the service, is dead. From now on, "email" will suffice.

A team of researchers at Harvard have devised that putting a thin coat of a sticky substance on the body of a car could help prevent serious damage/injury in an accident.

A team from the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research believes that they may have unlocked the secret to treating those suffering from Parkinson's disease.

More and more families are discovering that devices like the iPad can be useful tools to help their autistic or otherwise disabled children communicate with the world around them.

Christopher "moot" Poole, the founder of infamous message board 4chan, spoke at South by Southwest. During his keynote, he talked about how 4chan is misunderstood and how Mark Zuckerberg is wrong about Internet anonymity.

A surprisingly high number of people in the United Kingdom seem to believe that lightsabers, memory-erasing technology and time travel are all possible.

If new research by a team of biologists is to be believed, then human beings may not be the only creatures on Earth that refer to each other by a proper name.

After the disaster in Japan, Google is launching tools designed to help loved ones locate information about family and friends in the affected areas.