A gallery featuring various scientific advancements.

Visualizing the Petabyte Age

Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a human macrophage on the surface of an alveolus. Found mainly in the liver and lymph nodes, macrophages are a part of the immune system. Their primary function is... More

Fine, walk away. I'm gonna go cry into a pint of Ben&Jerry's Brownie Batter(tm) ice cream [link], then take out my frustration on a variety of great flash games from PopCap Games(r) [link]

I can't remember the marketing company who made this picture. Anyone who knows? They make amazing computer animated images.

Image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS)

On July 18 of 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon, speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the followin... More

Artist's Rendering of OLED Glasses.

Google Labs has an interesting new line of business — human anatomy. The Google Body Browser is a 3D representation of the major parts of the human body. Based on the well known and very expensive Zy... More

What an awe-inspiring picture...

Home from Above. There's no place like home. Peering out of the windows of the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson takes in the planet on which we were all born, and to... More

Don't worry! From the light's point of view, home and your eye are in the same place, and the journey takes no time at all! Relativity saves the day again.

Spammers are breaking Traditional Captchas, XKCD offers a solution.

Picture of a beautiful, futuristic building-city.

The beautiful world of the small.

Our beautiful Galaxy and beyond. It's beautiful.

FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released. Use this graphic to explore the world's fastest number crunchers or find out more about alternative supercomputer powers .

Funny comic on Climate Change.

So what do we do if video game AI opponents become smart enough to question the "matrix"into which we've put them?

A janitor takes in some of the Internet's knowledge sometime in the future, in this scene by flyingdebris.

ASIMO’s 9th birthday party was held last September. Here are a bunch of pictures of the precursors to the capable little robot that we’re familiar with today.

“We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.” Almost the future, but not quite… W... More

Each line represents a different space mission, highlighting notable missions, including those from different countries, those of historical significance, and those which have failed.

One of the most disturbing trends in robotics are the animatronic human heads that are sometimes attached to robotic bodies. Hanson Robotics did it with Einstein (Albert HUBO), Kokoro and AIST recently... More