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Diamonds are as useful as they are beautiful. They coat our blades, sharpen our tools, and convince women way out of our league to marry us. Researchers have now managed to construct a diamond aerogel 40 times as dense as air.

It's a slingshot. That fires machetes. I don't think it can be made any more clear than that.

As workers continue to struggle to contain the nuclear radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, levels of radiation well outside of the evacuation zone are approaching record levels.

To help combat the oppressive heat of a Qatar summer, scientists have devised artificial clouds that can be controlled remotely.

Fifty years after their first attempt to drill through the Earth's crust to the mantle, say that they very well could do so again. For the first time.

Artifacts found in Texas may reveal that humans were in North America two-thousand years before the Clovis people came over from Asia.

The Florida Everglades, long thought to be just another side effect of Earth's ever-changing features, may now be a direct byproduct of ancient landfills.

If you are planning to purchase a mini-ITX motherboard from Asus, you'll also receive a complimentary PC case... in the form of the shipping container.

A NASA scientist claims that the Orgueil meteorite, which landed in France back in 1864, could hold proof of intergalactic bacterial lifeforms.

An atemporal history of puffed cereals suggests that the links between food and industry stretch back to the beginnings of civilization. The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.