Life

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.

The astronomers, led by Takahiro Sumi if Osaka University in Japan, reported in the journal Nature there are hundreds of billions of planets that have been orphaned by their planetary systems. The planets have either been completely ejected out of orbit, meandering through space, or are distantly bound to their stars at a distance at least 10 times that of the Earth's distance from the Sun.

The Sony scorecard keeps improving. A new exploit allows hackers or anyone with the proper information for that matter, to change any accounts password on Playstation.com.

Research, in an amazing twist, shows marketers and executives might not know what they're talking about when giving advice on how to make something "go viral."