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This space-saving bicycle parking system proves that the future is not only unevenly distributed, but elsewhere.

Researchers have developed a prototype for coiled nanowires that could one day serve as stretchable circuitry. But can they make them walk down nano-stairways on their own?

Neue Films' video for the Queens-based baroque rockers catches life's uncanny, elemental evanescence. Video after the jump.

Breaking new ground in the age-old technology of thumb drives by adding a bouquet of handy, fold-out tools.

Japanese artist Kazumasa Nagai's posters put animal spirits at the heart of a floating modern world.

Iron girders, gay Paris, and the crackle of radio transmissions: today's hit in the history of science and technology.

Mastering the musical cactus requires not only a deft ear, but a good supply of bandages.

The people of the Siberian taiga, like the creatures they hunt and trap, are kept busy trying not to get bloodied or frozen, in a documentary narrated by Werner Herzog. Video after the jump.

A picture of the instruments arrayed in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which was completed in Antarctica at the end of last year, only hints at the massive scale of the science involved.

To brand a normally-invisible gadget, it pays to know your cognoscenti.