Science and Technology

The night sky seems unchanging to the naked eye, but beauty is hidden beyond the limits of unaided human perception. As Earth rotates, the sky moves, revealing astronomical events that only time-lapse photography -- a series of exposures lasting for minutes apiece -- can truly capture.

NASA plans to drop nearly $310 million from the budget for its planetary science division in 2013, a 20 percent cut that affects future missions to Mars, lunar science and exploration, study of the outer planets, and the development of new technology.

The U.S. military is almost entirely out of Iraq, with the exception of an office in Baghdad to sell the Iraqis American-made weapons. But it still wants to spend $3 billion-with-a-B in Iraq next year.

Since December, when Myspace introduced a new music player, sign ups have skyrocketed -- and the company officially announced one million new signups on Monday.

Unlike Netflix, Amazon isn't looking to compete with television cable channels in bidding on projects from established industry names; it's doing something more homespun, closer to YouTube or Fox, but with a professional sheen.

News of the tragic death of Whitney Houston this weekend didn't appear first on television or mainstream news sites. Instead it was revealed in a tweet posted forty-five minutes before the Associated Press reported the tragedy.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is secretly planning to deploy military-grade technology to keep the new World Trade Center safe from terrorism once it is completed, the New York Post learned.

A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect itself from the threat, an official news agency reported.

A hidden message in the newest trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man kicked off a new viral campaign that hid Peter Parker's backpack in six U.S. cities: Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, and Seattle. Countdown clocks expiring on Valentine's Day imply that these cities will be seeing more from the webbed wonder soon.

Money for research and development is down. Cash for maintaining the military's aging and existing inventory of planes, trucks, guns and bombs that the military already is up. This is what happens when austerity comes to the Pentagon: an older, wheezing force -- for the low, low price of $613.9 billion.

Under a new policy, AT&T has started cutting data speeds as part of an attempt to manage data usage on its network.

NASA is pressing forward on assessing the value of a "human-tended waypoint" near the far side of the moon — one that would embrace international partnerships as well as commercial and academic participation, SPACE.com has learned.

Pinterest is the fastest growing social network on the Internet -- so hot that it has had more traffic referrals than LinkedIn, YouTube, and Google+ combined in January!

The military is interested in neuroscience, particularly the potential for "neural interface systems" (NIS) that could control weapons with the human mind.

A brand-new rocket soared into space early Monday, Feb. 13, in a launch debut that carried nine small satellites and the hopes of the European Space Agency all the way into orbit.

Exclusive and first interview with the author of "The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army." It promises to be the most definitive look so far at the Joint Special Operations Command -- the lethal force behind the Osama Bin Laden raid.

Netflix unveiled Lillyhammer, its first original series, to unwaveringly mixed reviews last week. Here are Lore Sj?berg's pitches for more-appropriate Netflix series.

Art is usually considered a uniquely human ability, but that may not be true. Given the opportunity, animals like chimpanzees and gorillas and elephants produce abstract designs that arguably rise to artistic level.