SpaceX: Multimillionaire's Ship in Orbit
The SpaceX Falcon rocket launch came off successfully this morning; carrying routine supplies for the International Space Station -- and maybe beginning a new era, in which private enterprise handles missions only NASA could before.
  Solar Eclipse in Time-Lapse
This time-lapse video of an annular solar eclipse was shot Sunday by Cory Poole, a 33-year-old physics and math teacher from Redding, Calif., who has  an interest in science and astronomy. “Once I found out that the path of the annular eclipse went directly through my...
Google Doodle, a Music Synthesizer, Pays Tribute to Robert Moog
If you were a little less productive at work the day Google had that cool Les Paul Doodle on its homepage — you know, the one that let you record your own guitar riffs — be prepared to lose even more time today. In celebration...
Ancient Plant Revived After 30,000 Years
The plant in this picture dates from the Pleistocene Age, 30,000 years ago, before agriculture, before writing, before the last Ice Age. And while it’s not accurate to say the plant itself is that old, scientists in Russia say they regenerated it from frozen cells...
ooVoo: 12-Way Video Calling Comes to Facebook and the iPad
Skype and FaceTime might be the household names when it comes to video calling these days, but ooVoo doesn’t want that to be the case for much longer. Today the video chat service announced that it’s bringing its 12-way video calling feature — yes, you...
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