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"We speak on the phone, but where is your body?" Suzanne Fellini sings in "Love On the Phone." You can't push on a string; you can't embrace over a wire. But can the wire embrace us?

A simple, elegant reboot makes it easy to fill a room with daylight.

Turning a wall of ice into a touch screen may not have much practical use, but it's magical nonetheless.

Pelted with snow, NASA's probe captured images of the very active comet Hartley 2 on its November 4 flyby.

The search for extraterrestrial life is serious science: its methods are precisely documented, its results painstakingly peer-reviewed. But at the same time it�s a field with curious standards when it comes to �advances.�

What's appealing about durable goods that pretend to be disposable?

It's never too early to have "the talk."

Larry Page tells us to ask ourselves if the work we do is changing the world. But is change always and everywhere for the better?

Deadly cactus frond? Extinct creature of the deep? Answer after the jump.

University of Newcastle researchers may have come up with a biotechnology answer to the roadway printer I posted about yesterday: bacteria modified to colonize cracks in concrete and fix ruined buildings and crumbling roadways.