From today on, Google's RSS reading service the Google Reader will retire for good. We already published the alternatives, but here they again in case you missed or didn't yet bother looking for the substitute.
PIPA team working on a fingerprint authentication for basically anything. Take a look at this promising project that still needs your funding to go into the production.
Sailing stones, also called sliding or moving rocks is a geological phenomenon where rocks tend to move and leave long tracks into a valley surfaces like deserts without human or animal intervention.
With the help of supercomputers, N-Body Shop at University of Washington, created a simulation that shows the formation of a massive galaxy during the first 2 billion years of the universe.
Google just added amazing 360 panoramas of the Antarctic huts, early explorers used over a century ago. New images are a part of the World of Wonder project as an addition to Google Street View.
Incredible video of thousands and thousands of birds making an incredible spectacle with their sky ballet. I've seen quite a few of so called murmurations but his one takes the cake.
The original photo was taken in 1927 at the Fifth Solvay Conference where the most prominent and outstanding physicists and chemists got together to talk science.
The famous mule robot named BigDog can now handle and throw big and heavy objects thanks to its new addition in a form of an exceptionally strong robotic arm.
Another great TEDtalk about genetically engineering male mosquitoes to make them sterile, and releasing the insects into the wild, to cut down on disease-carrying species.