Willow Garage has Jorge Cham of PhD Comics doing a series of panels for them entitled simply “R.O.B.O.T. Comics.

A funny sketch by xkcd on the world's first ant colony to search for intelligent life.

Ever wondered what a supernova explosion looks like from a physics perspective? Wonder no more, because scientists at Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory have created this virtual simulation of the e... More

A look at how information moves now, and how it moved 100 years ago.

This is a panoramic view of the Eureka Tower Observation Deck.

CG illustrator Macoto Murayama takes a unique look at the organic beauty of flowers by highlighting their geometric and mechanical structure.

Here’s a collection of 60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots, taken by avid and professional photographers who jumped into action when the sun sets.

A close up of Jupiter.

As rainy season approaches, Japan’s Ishikawa prefecture has been receiving some unusual precipitation — it’s been raining tadpoles and fish. According to prefecture officials, tadpoles have re... More

Since the personal computer debuted in 1971, a Darwin-esque evolution process has lifted the PC from modest beginnings to its current role as an indispensable part of life in the 21st century. Over ... More

A collection of concept arts depicting how cities and landscapes of the future might look as envisioned by the artists.

What will automobiles look like 50 years down the road? If they turn out to be anything like these concepts from the design studios of four major automakers, we are in for quite a ride.

The release of the new Star Trek film got us thinking: how much of the fictional technology first seen in the original Star Trek of the 1960s now exists in real life?

On Monday, May 11, after months of delays and preparation, NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final servicing mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Th... More

Modeled after the wings of a dragonfly, this incredible urban farm concept for New York City’s Roosevelt Island intends to ease the problems of food mileage and shortage, and reconnect consumers with... More

If you were stuck in eternity...what would you do?

A closer look at something seemingly ordinary as a minuscule patch of darkness in space can reveal truly extraordinary and majestic truths about the Universe. Existence is beautiful.

A hint of what's to come?

See the related link for the entire Flickr photoset. Photographer heiwa4126’s “Stereographics” photoset is an eye-bending collection of “little planet” panoramas and ultra-wide fisheye ima... More

Earth Day is not only a time to reflect on the many ways in which we could improve our environment but also a chance to appreciate the beauty of the world we live in. The following ten artistic renditi... More

Populations of ungulates - hoofed mammals - have crashed in Kenya's famous Masai Mara reserve because of increased human settlement around the unfenced park, according to a new study. Here are some of ... More

In time for Earth Day, NASA ran an online contest to let Earthlings pick the top 10 accomplishments in the agency's five decades of observing the planet. The candidates were picked from a National ... More

Robotic systems continue to evolve, slowly penetrating many areas of our lives, from manufacturing, medicine and remote exploration to entertainment, security and personal assistance. Developers in Jap... More

Where will you live when we move from our savage planetary existence to interstellar life on massive, engineered structures? We've got a gallery of concept art featuring some gorgeous, awe-inspiring id... More

Saturn's tiny, icy moon Enceladus has recently been visited by NASA's Cassini orbiter on several very close approaches - once coming within a mere 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the surface. Scientists ar... More