While humanity may strive to explore deep space, concerns about solar radiation may make it impossible for humans to explore beyond Mars.

Living amidst a cornucopia of products that aren't products, we're learning that cultivating our gardens means working together. The final post in a series of chats about the Chrome notebook, with blogger Adam Rothstein.

You might think that genetic engineering is an incredibly complex, expensive, and high-tech process. And that�s where you�d be wrong.

A wintry forest looks picturesque, but slow-motion violence hides in the frame rate.

More domestic style than you or I can hope to amass in a lifetime�displayed in ten seconds. We might want to think about what that says for style... We so badly want to be our things. Video after the jump.

In a lodge in the shadow of New Hampshire's Mount Washington, reading tales of the summit's almost-implausibly calamitous past.

Slavoj �i�ek says that Wikileaks is hated not because of the secrets it has revealed, but because it exposed the cynicism of a system that has long stopped believing in the values it imagines itself to uphold. It's a problem not only for diplomacy and governance, but for the eroding distinction between public and private life.

In the age of the ebook, a ruminative turn to the inner work of building palaces of memory.

"If the Internet was walking around in public, it would look and act a lot like Julian Assange. " Bruce Sterling's take on Wikileaks, an affair worthy of Edgar Allan Poe.

Make the holidays bright for your favorite hacker without spending any money at all. Well, maybe you'll spend a little bit of money�as they say, it's the thought that counts.