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Austin Whitney is paralyzed from the waist down. He graduated this spring from UC Berkley. Also, he did something doctors told him he'd never be able to do. Walk.

Once thought to be a dying breed of over-promised innovation, and overvaluation, the Internet I.P.O. is making a comeback.

Jets of lighting can shoot upward toward space, and reach distances 50 miles above the Earth's surface. Harness this and we have a pretty sweet anti-everything weapon.

No one can actually see it. No one knows what it is or how it works. But, after a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are as certain as they'll ever be that dark energy exists, and it is tearing our universe apart.

Shell just one upped Dick Cheney and all his fracking, they're going to build the largest man-made floating object EVER.

Using your thumbs to manipulate a virtual joystick is about as intuitive as ice-skating on gravel. The Fling, pictured above, offers a stupid simple solution to gaming with your thumbs on the iPad.

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.