Science & Technology

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Snakes pose threat to U.S. islands, officials respond

These are strange, dark days for the tiny tropical island of Guam. Thanks to an infestation of invasive snakes, this onc...

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Sony PlayStation 4 “Reveal” Vaporous, Uncertain

Game consoles, unlike most other consumer electronic devices, tend to be maintained for years between updates. The last ...

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NASA’s Voyager 1 approaches the edge of our solar system

“Space: the final frontier…to boldly go where no man has gone before.”–Star Trek Original series opening...

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Largest ever Mersenne prime number discovered, has millions of digits

Prime numbers have always fascinated mathematicians. They pepper the natural numbers with a disconcerting degree of unpr...

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The decline of Dell and the buyback

Consumer PC manufacturer Dell announced last week that it would be buying itself back from its shareholders and becoming...

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Boeing Dreamliners grounded due to lithium-ion battery fires

Industry is always looking for ways to save money, and the airline industry is no exception. Two of the major factors in...

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Study: Cats linked to killing surprising number of birds, small mammals

Though few college students have the pleasure of sharing a house with a cat, surely many Calvin students grew up with fe...

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Scientists learn to store data on DNA molecules

Because the amount of data people are generating and processing continues to grow at a remarkable pace, storage technolo...

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Aaron Swartz, indicted in JSTOR downloading, is dead

Whenever a young person commits suicide, our understanding of the universe dies a little. It is especially so in the cas...

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Peter Diamandis speaks about the consequences of an abundant future

Peter Diamandis is the founder of the X Prize foundation and the chair of Singularity University. His January Series tal...