Life

Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, wants to make it so your kids can learn physics in school by playing Portal 2.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured exciting new imagery, which shows evidence for the existence of liquid water on one of Saturn's moons.

To help you avoid becoming a creepy albino lightning freak like that kid from "Powder", NASA is going to have one of their scientists available this Thursday to answer any of your lightning-related questions.

Scientists have spent centuries studying our solar system. However, apparently we don't know everything about one of our closest planetary neighbors.

Austin Whitney is paralyzed from the waist down. He graduated this spring from UC Berkley. Also, he did something doctors told him he'd never be able to do. Walk.

Jets of lighting can shoot upward toward space, and reach distances 50 miles above the Earth's surface. Harness this and we have a pretty sweet anti-everything weapon.

No one can actually see it. No one knows what it is or how it works. But, after a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are as certain as they'll ever be that dark energy exists, and it is tearing our universe apart.

Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.

Today in a rather out of character, but incredibly hilarious, move the C.D.C posted a how-to-guide on surviving a Zombie Apocalypse. The motive? To make the usual hum-drum press releases a little more entertaining.

Amazon, since April 1, has sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books. While this is a milestone for e-books and Amazon, digital copies of books still only make up 14% of all books sold. Still, the fact this milestone happened this fast, has Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezoz smiling ear to ear.