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For the first time since 1638, a lunar eclipse coincides with the winter solstice. Add the Ursid meteor shower, and the tonight's sky offers a triple dose of wintry glamor.

Make the holidays bright for your favorite hacker without spending any money at all. Well, maybe you'll spend a little bit of money�as they say, it's the thought that counts.

"Just think how many periodic tables you could put on my whole head!"

In the app store, no one knows you're a dog.

An Australian company's vivid new motion-capture technique not only enlivens cut scenes, but opens up a whole new range of challenges in the gameplay itself.

With Julian Assange now free on bail in England, we should ask what the plight of his forsaken source has to say about the Wikileaks moment.

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Is it the surface of an asteroid? Alzheimer's-ravaged brain tissue riddled with amyloid plaques? An electron micrograph of Limburger cheese? Answer after the jump.

Animaloscope, cinnomonograph, katoptiikum, lobsterscope, mutoscope, phenakistoscope, vivrescope, xograph�just a few of the turn-of-the-last-century's names for a strange new medium.

An amazing chart traces the routes of a variety of fictional time voyages, from Buck Rogers to Planet of the Apes to the several temporal joyrides found throughout the Star Trek franchise.