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What we don�t get about Wikileaks

The story is, it's not about the stories.

For Myspace, a life in mobile

Is mobile the answer for a pioneering, moribund social networking brand?

NASA and the enigma of terrestrial life

Perhaps the secret to extraterrestrial life resides here on Earth.

A visual taxonomy of anime opening sequences

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

When blindfolded, there’s no place like home

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

The uncanny biosphere of Google Earth

In Google Earth, seeing the forest for the trees.

Lunchtime vid: Arctic Circle

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

Mystery image: animal, vegetable, or astronomical?

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

Cassini visits Saturn’s oxygenated moon

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.