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The NASA MESSENGER satellite has established orbit around Mercury and is now transmitting back to Earth the first images ever shot from the planet's orbit.

Google has announced that they will be bringing their prototype 1Gbps fiber optic network to Kansas City, Kansas.

It's a slingshot. That fires machetes. I don't think it can be made any more clear than that.

The Mars 'Spirit' rover, having been silent for over a year, appears to finally be officially dead.

The earthquake in Japan knocked out two atomic clock transmitter stations, rendering thousands of time-telling devices in that part of the country useless.

MySpace, the once dominant social networking website, has now lost an unhealthy percentage of its users -- including ten million in January 2011 alone.

NASA released some time-lapse videos of some of the activity going on with our Sun. It's almost hypnotic.

According to an analyst with IDC, Windows Phone could very well be the #2 mobile OS behind Android... in 2015.

As workers continue to struggle to contain the nuclear radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, levels of radiation well outside of the evacuation zone are approaching record levels.

Scientists at Harvard have discovered that the proper application of electricity could very well help fight fires.