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It might be fun to name and categorize all of the tropes in anime openings. But Derek Lieu's compilation video is better.

NPR's Robert Krulwich reports on an astonishing finding: blindfolded, no one can walk in a straight line.

In Google Earth, seeing the forest for the trees.

Just in time for the holidays, a frosty cautionary tale.

A bacterial colony growing in a petri dish? A close-up of a lizard's iridescent, scaly skin? Answer after the jump.

he Cassini spacecraft has detected atmospheric oxygen on Rhea, a rocky, icy moon orbiting Saturn. 950 miles in diameter (less than half that of our moon), the tiny world is covered with water ice, which likely produces free oxygen as it is bombarded with charged particles from the magnetosphere of its parent planet, Saturn.

Since when is technological advancement a prerequisite for artistic seriousness?

In tribute to a visionary artist, strobing, massing, fluorescent patterns of technological imagery that have something of the spiritual about them as well.

Future rulers of the planet, the crows, unlike cats and other animals, are smart enough to work together. Video after the jump.

A Microsoft patent filed in May (and published yesterday) describes a �topography-changing� display in which shape-memory polymers would react to light signals to change the texture of a display surface, a technology that may be used to develop tactile touchscreens or other controls.