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A very dark spot on Mars could be an entrance to a deep hole or cavern, according to scientists studying imagery taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The hole might be the sort of place that could support life or serve as a habitat for future astronauts, researchers speculated.

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The film is about two friends who have managed to trudge into their 30s with a satisfying lack of accomplishment. But a 15-year high school reunion and dire rent problems spark the novel moneymaking idea of pulling together an amateur porn enterprise. “It’s … dirty, with nudity,” says Smith. “But funny nudity, not gratuitous nudity.”

The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users.

"By using a pair of polarizing filters and a property of certain materials called birefringence we can photograph the hidden stresses in hard plastics. This instructable was inspired by this article and a comment I read in another instructable, somewhere, about LCD monitors and polarization."

You've probably played this game before - it was one of the greatest works to come from the last generation of console hardware, critically regarded as the definitive entry in Capcom's Resident Evil series. But the Wii Remote has changed the boundaries of what's possible in games, moving Capcom to sense an opportunity and pounce.

Anaheim 6 Ottawa 2 Congrads! Anaheim Ducks won the 2007 Stanley Cup!! Ottawa Senators played hard but the Ducks took it home tonight!

Dr. Konrad Steffen is the director of University of Colorado at Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and a veteran researcher of Arctic climate. He discussed the accelerating melting of Greenland's ice cap and its effects on global ocean levels in an interview with Reuters on May 18 at his field research camp.

The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem.

Analyzing and pricing out the components of Apple's new set-top video box reveals that its profits are uncharacteristically slim

Apparently the CEO of Macmillan Publishers decided to swipe two Google laptops from Google's booth at BookExpo America, wait for Google employees to notice the missing laptops (took about an hour) and then claim that he was just giving Google "a taste of their own medicine."

The bigger a node is, the more papers it contains. Heavily cited papers appear in more than one node. Black lines connect any nodes that contain the same papers; the darker a link is, the more papers the connected nodes have in common. These links create the structure of the map and tend to pull similar scientific disciplines closer to one another.

Oetzi, the 5,100-year old mummified iceman found in a Tyrolean glacier in 1991, bled to death after being hit in the back by an arrow, Swiss scientists said Wednesday following X-ray. "A lesion of a close-to-the-shoulder artery has been found thanks to a CT scan,"

Intelligent extra-terrestrials almost certainly exist on distant planets beyond our solar system, leading British astronomers told the government yesterday.The scientists expect that the first evidence of primitive alien life, such as microbes and vegetation, will emerge within 10 years, with more substantial finds following future space missions

If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts.

"At every point, there was part of me resisting, part of me enjoying," Lagouranis said. "Using dogs on someone, there was a tingling throughout my body. If you saw the reaction in the prisoner, it's thrilling."

"Next time you float past Hokkaido, look down upon the town of Urahoro. There in a field you will see a giant geoglyph that spells out the words “Smart Loop.” This crop circle message is the work of a highly advanced race of aliens Pioneer, which has taken shears to grass to promote its latest Smart Loop car navigation system. "

Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.

Evolving from the designs of Team Xtender's past mods, the ii-Hot Rock case aims to do more than just light the Wii with colorful LEDs.The $62.95 shell comes equipped with a digital thermometer that displays the console's internal temp, and the LEDs shift with that measurement. Every 5° change pushes their hue towards either a colder or warmer glow

Green skyscrapers offer so much for the average "EcoGeek" to drool over. Each one can contain hundreds of innovations that make the world a cleaner place, they build up, rather than out, and many of them are freaking gorgeous. Here are the top 10.

Engadget's compares new LED technology from Apple with their old CCF technology. Includes pictures, side by side

A Swarm of Angels, an ambitious open source movie project that I wrote about in March, is about to move into its next phase, which should see the community grow to 5,000 members (from just under a thousand). It's counting down today as it moves past 1,000 and closes public registration to go invite-only.

Something is missing from the latest iPhone commercial--namely the bit about "2 Year Activation Required". And today AT&T launched new pay as you go Feature Packages. Could this be leading up to the pre-paid contract-free iPhone that we all gave up on when the iPhone commercials debuted this week?

Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors. The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros ($1.35-$2). Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.

You can’t live in New Yorkâ€"arguably, you can’t spend an hour in New Yorkâ€"and remain oblivious to the machinery of profit pumping away under every surface. This city makes money, loses money, houses money; lately, with luxe condos stacking up like casino chips along the waterfront, the city looks like money.

Would we get more services? Cheaper rates? Shorter lines? Better handling of mail? More convenient location of mailboxes? Just to name a few. Are there risks? Only if you expect poor service at a higher rate.

"It's not a debate: This was the worst season of 24 ever, often painful to watch. Even the President of Fox thought so. But rather than rail endlessly about how bad it’s become, I thought I’d channel my energy into thinking about how they might make it better next year..."

Low-cost American airline JetBlue announced yesterday they have struck a deal with search giant Google to provide real-time in-flight tracking via the wildly popular Google Maps software on the seat-back screens.

Top 10 OS X programs that only do one thing, but do it well.

PlayFrance has a brand new trailer for MGS4 that shows off more story and most importantly -- a massively upgraded visual engine. You thought it looked hot before? Just wait till you see this one. Oh yeah, and the trailer ends with 'Coming in 2007.'

10 simple-to-make meals that fight fat, build muscle, and save you time -- all for less than 50 bucks

While many view the 1989 Patrick Swayze-starrer as a laughable joke of an action film, Road House is in fact, secretly, a brilliant film. Don't agree? Read on, you skeptical son of a…

Forget about all those whacked out computers covered in diamonds, flames, and car manufacturer logos that tell the world how much money you have to spend. Instead, impress the design school girl sitting next to you by whipping out a wooden computer.

A DEVICE that can pick up on people's emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed. One of the problems facing people with autism is an inability to pick up on social cues. Failure to notice that

Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press.

[H] recently ran an article showing a significant framerate discrepancy on popular gaming titles between the two Microsoft operating systems on NVIDIA hardware. They've since gone back and done the same thing with ATI hardware and the new 158.xx NVIDIA drivers. While ATI did better than NVIDIA, there's still a disturbing overall trend.

NASA sought today to deflect criticism its chief received following skeptical comments he made on the topic of the agency's role in global warming research.

There’s an underground trend that’s been going on for quite some time among those who don’t enjoy the usual MySpace layout aesthetic - loud music, tons of animations, layout that’s falling apart and color matching from hell. These folks have gone to great lengths to make their MySpace profiles as different from the “standard” MySpace layout as poss

It looks like the iPhone ads that aired on Sunday night were just the beginning. Sam L and several other MacRumors readers report that a new iPhone ad just aired on CNBC.The unpublished iPhone ad focuses on the iPhone's ability to browse the internet, and demonstrates Safari browsing the New Yo...