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A study of the microbes in the guts of our closest relatives gives new meaning to the gut-check, finding that the mix of bacteria in our gastrointestinal tract is determined not solely by diet, but by evolution as well.

Two very different sets of assumptions about what books are and what reading them in a networked age should be like.

Day by day, the hacks are getting more interesting.

A slime mold attacking bacteria in a petri dish? Marbling on the endpapers of a rare first edition of Galileo's Starry Messenger? Methane storms on one of the Jovian moons? Answer after the jump.

In the space tourism era, with CEOs spending millions to be hoisted into the heavens, he was the first true empty suit in space.

Thousands of cars shooting around in an endless loop: just because it looks like dystopia doesn't mean it's not delightful.

German robotics company Festo offers a postfuturist menagerie: autonomous kites, silver air-jellyfish and flying robo-penguins.

It's morning in America, and the pencil sharpener is at work.

At the blog Paleo-future, visions of techno-optimism & brave new worlds�all in a packet of cigarettes.

The history of the attention span is very distracting.