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If you've ever wondered about the functions of all those buttons Darth Vader wears on his chest, the secret is now out. They are controls for his cassette deck. Yes, Vader has achieved what we've all dreamed of at one time or another- carrying around our own soundtrack, so we have the best music for an entrance at our fingertips, plus mood music and sound effects for t...

In the few short years between the Wright Brothers' first flight and World War I, airplanes really took off, so to speak. England, France, and Germany all used them in the war as bombers, which at first consisted of pilots throwing bombs by hand, but advanced quickly.

The US did not enter the war until 1917, but for years beforehand had supplied the British wit...

Researchers and engineers at the General Robotics Lab at Duke University have developed the Argus--a robot that can move in any direction. It doesn't have a back, front, or sides. It can move in any direction at once. Its central design principle is dynamic symmetry, which means t...

YouTuber KoalaOK subtitled his wordless animated film Pit with "A Short Film About Human Nature." So you'd expect to see humans, right? Or maybe not- there are no humans in sight until halfway through the film. Instead, we get fantastical monsters fighting to the death over a piece of food. Are these weird creatures an analogy for humans? And are they really f...

People are traveling to Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday this year. You might want to add a stop in New York, because the New York Public Library is offering something unique- beer brewed from George Washington's personal recipe. It was found in a journal Washington kept in 1757 while he led a Virginia militia during the Sev...