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On a flight to the Farnborough Air Show outside London, Maj. James Sullivan and Noel Widdifield fly the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 56.4 seconds. The 1,806-mph flight still holds the transatlantic speed record between the two cities.

Wind farms are popping up in rural areas that can't use that electricity — could the promising form of alt energy be labeled another boondoggle for farm states?

A bungee jungle gym! A 10-g merry-go-round! A rocket swing! It's 2024, and this is no ordinary playground (just make sure you sign the waiver on your way in).

As all the baby boomers age (dare we say it!?), they must be considering what retirement homes will look like a decade from now. But what about many decades from now? Will nursebots and flying Rascals be a part of the plan?

An astronaut took over 85 time-lapse videos of Earth from the International Space Station. We have some of the best here, including an aurora and a satellite launch.

Authorities were negotiating Wednesday with an armed man who has taken an unknown number of hostages, who might have an explosive or “metallic device” at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Breaking with a longstanding but unstated policy, Apple has decided to publish a live video stream of Wednesday's press conference. The stream will be optimized for Mac, iPhone and iPad users only.

Using a new technique at a new telescope, two separate groups of exoplanet scientists have discovered potassium in the atmospheres of two hot Jupiters more than 190 light-years from Earth.

The discovery of nearly identical sea creatures on either side of a now-solid Antarctic ice sheet — 1,500 miles wide and over a mile thick — points to an open ocean passage there as recently as 125,000 years ago. The new evidence adds to geologic clues indicating the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has collapsed at least once in the last million years, and could do so again in a warmer climate. The complete collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise global sea level by 11 to 16 feet.

General Motors provides a glimpse at how it might market the Chevrolet Volt against other EVs.

A new circuit element called a memristor, or "memory resistor," could usher in extremely efficient data storage that could eventually make instant-on, low-power PCs a reality. HP is just three years away from bringing the memristor to market as a new product called ReRAM, for Resistive Random Access Memory.

Notorious file sharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million.

Sites around the web — including Wired.com — are getting splashed with a mysterious dialog Tuesday, thanks to a change in the way Twitter handles user authentication.

Before the release of Capcom's zombie horror game Dead Rising 2 in September comes this abbreviated preview version, which explores the events prior to the full game for Xbox 360.

The number of concussions diagnosed in youth athletes has risen considerably over a recent 10-year period, according to researchers from Hasbro Children's Hospital in Rhode Island. Overall, concussions among 14- to 19-year-olds playing organized team sports jumped more than 200 percent from 1997 to 2007, even as participation among 7- to 17-year-olds in the five most popular sports — football, basketball, baseball, soccer, and hockey — decreased by 13 percent.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued a blistering diatribe against music piracy Monday, declaring it a "growing threat" that "should be dealt with accordingly." Was Locke backing the Hollywood and recording studios' assertions that online scofflaws should kicked off the internet?

John Cyr has been sending letters, putting his foot in doors and hounding famous photogs. It's all to secure some quiet time with an empty tray and pay homage to the age-old art silver gelatin printing and its unsung, shallow-dish heroes.

WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping military docs onto a Lady Gaga disc. A legendary hacker is trying to make it harder for troops to funnel classified material to the site.

Robots, phantom limbs and a nostril-powered digital painting take center stage at Ars Electronica 2010. Organizers for the digital arts festival, a longtime magnet for madcap interactive designers, describe this year's exhibition as "a response to impending doom."

Now that Netflix has released an iPhone app that allows mobile cinephiles to stream their instant queues, it's worth considering reorganizing those queues for smartphone screening. We we put together a handy list of films across all genres that ought to look just fine on the iPhone's comparatively puny display.