On July 16, 1945, the US Army destroyed a small part of New Mexico by testing the first nuclear bomb in human history, the most powerful wea...

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The magazine Scientific American announces its most important space stories for the year 2012, with the discovery of the Higgs Boson topping...

Shanghai's Orient shopping centre experienced disaster on Dec 18 when a huge aquarium filled with lemon-sharks, turtles and fish rupture...

Our daily does of satellite imagery through services like Google Maps have made looking down at Earth seem rather hum-drum at times. But the...

Now that Twitter's finally made old tweets available, you might be inclined to nuke a few. Developer Benjamin Jackson created a tool tha...

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This year, quite a few products disappeared from the market, as technology inevitably marches on. Whether they got pulled for being faulty o...

The end is near. I mean the end of 2012, not the world, as dunderheaded Mayan-acolytes believe. Even without looming global annihilation, it...

2012 has been a big year for science: people sank to record depths, a private company made it into space, NASA landed something the size of ...

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's iconic "Who's on First?" comedy routine from the 1930s just got a refresh from a few of toda...

Very rare and old Twin Transilluminator in Box from India 1950 in good condition. Its medical Instrument for sinuses and Eye therapy. Its ma...

Attention wannabe pilots: Here's your chance to experience the next best thing to flying Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner. The company cr...

Gmail and Google Drive are both popular choices amongst Lifehacker readers. The Google Australia team recently shared a list of some of the ...

One second this eagle is gliding around above a park, majestic, then moments later it swoops down and tries to grab a toddler. It's just...

If you’re having trouble picking a holiday film, this handy flowchart can help. Need a film with just the right touch of animation and creep...

Everyone knows the first words that were said on the moon, but what about the last? 40 years ago yesterday we left the moon for the last tim...

Facebook changed its privacy settings on Wednesday and it's important to know what the new changes mean for users, especially your digit...