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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.

Michelle Obama teams up with Walmart to fight obesity and bring down the cost of healthy food. But the problems of processed food emerged from yesterday's answers to questions of purity, safety, and health; will the future be any different? The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.

Remember how we used to say that when the machines start reproducing, we'll know we're in trouble"? Well maybe it's time for a gut-check on that one. Video after the jump.

Protozoan Pong and neurostimulating LCD projectors illuminate the control mechanisms of simpler organisms.

GOOD's Nicola Twilley wonders how the industrial analysis of qualities like texture, consistency, and juiciness will transform age-old culinary cultures, in the second in a joint series exploring the science and technology of food.