From today on Microsoft will no longer support Windows XP. The one thing everybody will always remember of Windows XP is desktop image ‘Bliss’, with it’s green rolling hills and bluer than blue sky. Doesn’t the most viewed picture of all times asks for a worthy goodbye? We certainly think so! That’s why Microsoft hopped on a plane to Los Angeles and went to visit the photographer Charles O’Rear.
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ITER is an international project to design and build an experimental fusion reactor based on the “tokamak” concept.
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Watching these alkali metals react with air and water is just fascinating.
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Navy researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, demonstrate proof-of-concept of novel NRL technologies developed for the recovery of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) from seawater and conversion to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel.
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Robots like the Terminator may still be science fiction, but robotic technology to develop equipment for tomorrow’s troops is science fact. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has begun using Porton Man – a new human-sized robot developed.
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After the Redneck Rollercoaster here comes the Motorcycle Rope Swing. This really is fun for days until you run out of gas!
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Cyclopentadienyl nickel nitrosyl is a really dangerous chemical to handle and is not the only one. Chemists speak about the most dangerous chemicals they have ever handled.
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Five-year-old boy discovers serious Xbox Live security flaw.
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Ketamine is a drug intended to be used as a tranquilizer that’s turned into one for the party scene. But now — it could be used to treat depression.

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Your drinks will never be the same with this cool Liquid Light Glass!
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People rise up! Tweet #bringdowntheking to help us bring the statue of Joffrey down. Check out live progress.
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In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What’s more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the workers themselves qualify for food stamps—which the employees then often spend at those big-box stores.
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Generally acknowledged as the largest airplane in the world, the Antonov An-225 is the world’s heaviest aircraft ever (max. takeoff weight greater than 640 tons) and the largest Heavier-than-air aircraft (in length and wingspan) ever entering operational service. List of large aircrafts on Wikipedia.
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Hallucinations, Earworms, and implanting false memories, our brains love to screw with us. We countdown the 10 ways our mind tries to trick us

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If you are like me and are fascinated about the number of people incarcerated in the US you will love this animated video.
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