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Uploading data shows that AT&T may be giving preferential treatment to the iPhone 4 -- at the expense of their other smartphone customers.

To help combat the growing concern of space debris in orbit around Earth, NASA is pondering the construction of a giant laser that could help knock potentially harmful chunks of debris from the sky.

Modder Mark Bongo has gone above and beyond with his latest creation: A fully-functioning R2-D2 that is complete with a projector.

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.

Sometimes your name determines what you will ultimately do with your life.

The Geminoid DK project at Osaka University is producing androids that are becoming more lifelike each day.

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.

With all the hoopla over the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it kind of went unnoticed that in completing their mission, Discovery installed the final section of the International Space Station.

The earthquake that struck the coast of Japan in early March shifted Earth's rotation to the point where it actually shortened days -- by a microscopic amount.