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A new remote-control ball controlled by a smartphone app seems less like magic than a kind of undead.

On the Indonesian island of Flores, researchers have discovered the remains of a giant bird that might have preyed on the mysterious and controversial Homo floresiensis, an extinct, diminutive close relative of modern humans.

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An elegant stocking-stuffer that also proves there's still innovation to be found in books.

Now you can bicycle to the Internet (almost), on a networked stationary cycle that adds layers of gaming, interactivity, and social media to the spinning workout.

Along with advances in telegraphy, weaponry, and medicine, the Civil War seems to have touched off a revolution in box-making.

An animated reverse-history of communications media that goes from apps to web to video to clay to slate and chalk. In six seconds.

By studying the search algorithms of ants, researchers are discovering ways of making computer networks faster and smarter.

An ancient device for predicting the occurrence of solar eclipses gets a fun, lucid reboot�in interlocking plastic blocks.

There seems no end to reporting and commentary on Wikileaks, from the ravings of Regnery-Press author Marc Thiessen to the thorough round-up Alexis Madrigal is hosting at the Atlantic. But perhaps the best perspective comes from the sober analysts at NMA.tv, who have furnished their customarily-comprehensive coverage of l'affaire Assange. Or whatever it's called in Cantonese.