You certainly take measures to make sure no one breaks into your home, but someone breaking into your critical online accounts can be almost as bad. Google has added a new layer of security to account logins that seems at first like it could be a security problem of …

  Flickr was, for a time, the premiere online photo sharing site for professionals and semi-professionals. Yahoo bought the site early on, slowly transforming it into a more consumer-oriented product. Now that Yahoo has been sold off in pieces, the new Flickr owner wants to take the site back to …

It’s been a rough week for NASA missions. Earlier this week we covered news that Kepler, the planet-hunting telescope that revolutionized our understanding of extrasolar planets, has finally run out of fuel. Now it’s time to say goodbye to Dawn, our first probe to examine the mysteries of Ceres and …

While the International Space Station (ISS) is a technological marvel, it has not traditionally had a lot of onboard processing capacity. That changed last year when NASA delivered a supercomputer to the station. It was only there for a test run, but now the agency plans to use it for …

Modern birds inherited their egg color from non-avian dinosaur ancestors that laid eggs in fully or partially open nests, according to new research led by Yale University researcher Jasmina Wiemann. The colors found in modern birds’ eggs did not evolve independently, as previously thought, but evolved instead from dinosaurs. This …

A beautiful new species of swallowtail butterfly has been discovered on the Pacific Island of Vanua Levu, Fiji. The Natewa swallowtail (Papilio natewa). Image credit: Greg Kerr. Named the Natewa swallowtail (Papilio natewa), the newfound species measures 3 inches (8 cm) across, with two elongated edges projecting from the hind …

Rather than sucking space ships into a space-station, a tractor beam created by University of Adelaide researcher Ashby Hilton and his colleagues pulls atoms into a microscopic hole at the center of a special optical fiber. Atomic chamber in which tractor beams were created. Image credit: Institute for Photonics and …

Bacteria thrive in showerheads and throughout household water distribution systems. While most of these bacteria are innocuous, some are potential pathogens, including members of the genus Mycobacterium that can cause nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung infections. In a new study published in the journal mBio, a researcher team led by University …

NASA declares Dawn, a mission to the two largest bodies in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, over after the spacecraft depletes its hydrazine fuel and stops communicating with the agency’s Deep Space Network. This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arriving at Ceres. Image credit: NASA …

When it concerns security updates, Android is a genuine mess. Even after Google timely present security spots for its Android platform, a huge part of the Android environment stays exposed to hackers due to the fact that device makers do not provide patches routinely and on a timely basis to …