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Video: This Fish Climbs Up Waterfalls By Gripping With Its Mouth
One genus of goby fish has developed a radical adaptation to life in Hawaii’s rough-and-tumble streams: it uses its mouth to climb waterfalls. Waterfall climbing is a critical skill for Hawaiian gobioids–the fish ha...
The spirit of Star Trek
Posted at 2:24 PM on January 7, 2013 by Bob Collins (1 Comments) Filed under: People doing good The social networking site, Reddit, has done it again. This story starts, as they all do, with a post on Reddit, in this case from ...
Boba Fett Hoodie
As You Wished So this Boba Fett hoodie ain’t made of duraplast. And it doesn’t have an armor liner. It is not going to protect you from blasts, fire, acid, poisons, or corrosive substances. However, it will protect ...
CES 2013: Fitbit’s New Flex Wristband Never Leaves Your Person
We haven’t been too thrilled with Fitbit’s offerings in the past–not that they’re not good at what they are, just that the fitness tracker in general is not what we’d like it to be right now. One o...
Hack Yourself An Emergency DIY Car Charger
MATERIALS USB cable for your device Any 5-volt car cigarette lighter adapter Knife Tape STEP 1 Cut the USB end off the cable for your device and strip the insulation. You’ll use the black and red wires to connect to the adapt...
CES 2013: Lexus Unveils Autonomous ‘Safety Research’ Car
At CES today, Lexus showcased an “Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle,” a souped-up LS being used as a testbed for autonomous car technology. “Our goal is to eliminate future traffic fatalities and injurie...
Rewire Your File-Transfer Routine
When moving terabytes of data from one computer to another, cut out the external drive—an expensive, sluggish middle man—by cutting up an Ethernet cable. Rearranging the small internal wires on one end allows near-instant d...
Billions And Billions: Our Galaxy Has At Least 100 Billion Planets, Of Which 17 Billion Are Earthlike
Comfortably a few years into their mission, scientists working with the Kepler Space Telescope are now getting deep into statistics. Like pollsters drawing conclusions from a small sample of voters, they’re confident the few ...
Easily program robots with Lego’s new, highly hackable Mindstorms EV3
This year at CES Lego unveiled the third generation of their programmable Mindstorms building set. Dubbed Lego Mindstorms EV3, this new set comes around six years after the last generation of Mindstorms NXT, and brings a signif...
Today On Mars: Curiosity Visits The Snake River
Mars Rover Curiosity is back on the move. After a brief holiday break during which the immobile rover simply imaged its surroundings it resumed rolling on January 3 and is now within a robotic-arm-length of a strange rock featu...
Pen Nib Necklace
A mighty ally While many of us do our writing via keyboard, back in the day, there was no greater pleasure than dipping a pen nib into a jar of ink and writing a few words at a time, scritching across the paper. Scritch, scritc...
Researchers Create The First Earth-Based Laser Built From A Cloud Of Gas
Astronomers have long been baffled by lasers that occur naturally out there in the universe, sending bursts of intense optical and microwave light streaming across the cosmos at specific frequencies. Scientists quickly realized...
‘Big Bang Theory’ Goes Full ‘Star Trek’ in New Clip (Video)
CBS’ The Big Bang Theory is going to the final frontier: Bakersfield. ‘The Big Bang Theory’: From ‘Star Trek’ to ‘Lord of the Rings,’ the Show’s Nerdiest Moments‘Big Bang Th...
Captain’s Log: Star Trek Online year in review, part two
As 2013 gets underway and before Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment begin hinting at upcoming material due out for Star Trek Online’s third anniversary next month, I’m taking the opportunity to go over ...
CES 2013: Nvidia Announces Ludicrous Portable Gaming System
Nvidia isn’t a company everyone necessarily knows; they’ve long been known for graphics hardware, but have recently branched out into mobile silicon with the Tegra line of combination CPU/GPU processors, which are u...
SR Geek Picks: The Office + The Hobbit, Famous Movie Hands, A Geek’s Dating …
Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web for you. Today you’ll find a fun Man of Steel/Finding Nemo trailer mashup; Angry Birds Star Wars cookies; fam...
HTC Q4 2012 net profit falls 91 percent
Taiwanese mobile phonemaker HTC’s net profit in the fourth quarter of 2012 has dropped 91 percent year-on-year. In a Taiwan stock exchange filing, HTC said its net income after tax for quarter ending December 2012 was NT$...
NASA Puts Space Shuttle Launch Facilities Up For Sale. Make An Offer!
Click to launch the photo gallery The space shuttles are all nestled in their retirement homes, but NASA still has plenty of equipment, buildings and other infrastructure left over from their 30-year run. The space agency is qu...
Apple secures majority of US smartphone market, Samsung dominates Europe
Apple has managed to secure over 50 percent of the American smartphone market but Samsung remains strong in Europe, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. The research firm says that the iPad and iPhone marker is taking back m...
COMICS: Ann Nocenti Discusses JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA’s KATANA …
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS Vic Armstrong – The World’s Greatest Stuntman Russell Balogh – Captain America: The First Avenger Actor (HYDRA Soldier) Cullen Bunn – Spider-Man: Season One, The Sixth Gun, Wolverine...
Missed baskets Saints’ undoing
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — Rider finished renovating cozy Alumni Gymnasium last spring. The Siena men’s basketball team fired enough bricks in its visit on Sunday to put an addition on the building. The Saints continued thei...
Michael Keaton Says He Wanted His Third BATMAN Movie to Be a Nolan-Esque Origin Story
Of all the actors who have played Batman on the big screen, I’ll always have a soft spot for Michael Keaton. Then again, I tend to enjoy Michael Keaton in all of his movies, and I wish he had donned the cape and cowl a thir...
NASA’s Shuttle Launch Facilities, For Sale To Anyone Interested
The 526-foot-tall building was originally constructed to mate the mammoth Saturn V rocket with the Apollo capsules. It famously generates its own indoor weather in the humid Florida climate. Now portions of it are available for...
- You Built What?!: A Compact Mechanical Crossbow With the Precision of a Laser
- DirecTV iPad app adds (some) TV and film streaming ‘Everywhere’ (Update: beta)
- Interactive Game of Thrones calm comes to HBO Go iPad app
- Test Drive: The 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth
- G is for geek: kids get ABC for today’s world Alpha-beta learning
- Prometheus Blu-ray Details Revealed
- Guillermo del Toro Talks Pacific Rim 2 and More
- Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics
- Is Homeopathy Really As Implausible As It Sounds?
- Today’s other news: Left 4 Dead 3 could happen, no one’s working on Borderlands 3
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- The day the Earth stood soaked at Oregon UFO Festival – USA Today
- ‘Star Trek’: Chris Pine’s grandmother was Universal horror icon
- ‘Star Trek’ does $70.6M on opening weekend, but falls short of studio’s …
- In Japan, the Rise of ‘Geek Brands’
- ‘Star Trek’ Sequel Opens as Top Weekend Film With $70.6 Million
- Among The Sleep now among the Kickstarter funded
- ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Tops Weekend Box Office
- WildStar’s second phase of closed beta is no longer region-locked
- Weekend Box Office: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Opens With "Just" $84 Million.
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