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"We were forcing acoustic guitars through a cassette player, and what came out the other end was electric as hell."

With the power of massively concentrated sunlight, you could teach those giant ants in the old scifi thriller Them! a thing or two.

From London's district for poor writers, a maker of highly specialized tools comes calling.

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.