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The trouble with the Rebel Alliance: no exit strategy. Video after the jump

To demo their Javascript framework for the Kinect, this MIT Media Lab team made a gestural web browser interface. Insert gratuitous tech-blogger Minority-Report rave here.

"Imagination... must not be underestimated as a valuable means to advance knowledge towards new frontiers," say the authors of a new study on the possible consequences of the discovery of extraterrestrial life; we couldn't agree more.

Moons of Uranus, a trans-Pacific solo flight, and the health dangers of smoking: today's hits in the history of science and technology.

While most of us use one side of the brain to play chess, the minds of masters of the game solve moves by parallel processing.

Scientists using NASA's orbital Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope find gamma rays and antimatter streaming out of thunderstorms into Earth's upper atmosphere.

A documentary that helps us glimpse one of modernity's unlikeliest and most enticing of possible ends: the open-source cracking-open of industrial society.

Cat versus bear cub: sentimental romp, or nature red in tooth and claw? Watching the two tangle playfully in a Russian hunting camp, the line is hard to draw. Video after the jump.

Among the lunar-phase calendars usually found stacked in crystal shops and New-Age book stores, a radial version by designer and type founder Dimitre Lima stands out.

To reboot their product line, Polaroid have appealed to the highest authority: they've named Lady Gaga their creative director. Her photographic sunglasses may be a caprice; her new digital instant camera offers retronovation with technical flair.