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Cosmologists are finding circles in the sky�specifically, in the pattern of microwave background radiation, the echo of the Big Bang. Some think they're traces of a time before time; others argue that they're the "bruises" left by collisions with universes other than our own.

We know about Archaeopteryx lithographica thanks to an image-making process found in the Earth's crust.

A quiet and surprising short animation that catches the flickering, secret splendor of a colorblind world.

It's not an ancient computer reverse-engineered in plastic blocks, but this Lego-inspired spoof of Call of Duty: Black Ops is good fun. Video after the jump.

A political stunt threatens science funding with a misleading take on the nature of basic research. It's too bad that we can't send the responsible members of Congress to the corner until they learn to behave.

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The distance Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled on the moon belies the immensity of their feat, as NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich discovered last week when blogging about scale in the news. In truth, the scale of their accomplishment is so off the charts, it can only fuel our fantasies�not to mention those of Michael Bay.

A standard thumb drive with a Rubik's Cube theme suggests a puzzling approach to hardware interfaces.

On October 7th, 1930 � slender and bright; like a string tense and silent in anticipation of the purpose of her note � Beatrice Warde was introduced to the British Typographer's Guild. The speech she gave would change the way people thought about type for the next fifty years... and should be burnt into the flesh of anyone who is making a gadget to this day.

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