This amazing photo captures the shuttle Atlantis docked at the ISS, with the beautiful glow of the Aurora Australis (southern lights) in the background.

Len Komanac might have actually done the impossible -- create an original, never-been-done piece of Star Wars art.

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.

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

Cupertino opens up the north forty for farming as app-culture's Green Revolution continues apace.

A pinkie bone found in Russia offers a key to our complicated common heritage.

An animated reverse-history of communications media that goes from apps to web to video to clay to slate and chalk. In six seconds.

Solitary bees with a talent for producing durable polymers may point the way to a petroleum-free future.

An elegant new site presents the radio transcripts of early NASA missions in a textual dramatization.

At the Web 2.0 Summit, a look at the emergence of mobile technology and unforeseen twists in the story of the digital divide and the ongoing evolution of the public sphere.