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Michael Lombardi in the Exosuit. Photo by Jim Clark/AMNH.

The High-Tech Exosuit That Takes Divers to 1000 Feet

It looks like something you'd wear to visit the Moon and Mars, but the Exosuit—on display at the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall of Ocean Life through March 5—is actually built to explore another place that's largely alien to humans: Th

4 Things Facebook Has Learned From Your Relationship Status

While many of the results match up with our expectations, not everything was so obvious.

10 Priceless Smithsonian Artifacts You Can Print Out At Home

That Abraham Lincoln life mask you've always wanted is coming soon to a living room near you—all you need is a 3D printer.

The Evolution of Facebook's Pronoun Problem

Talking in the third person, the singular they, and gender-neutral pronouns.

Scientists Recreate Dreams With YouTube Videos

Mind reading used to belong to the realms of sci-fi books and comic strips. But in 2011, a team of scientists from UC Berkeley discovered a way to construct YouTube videos from a viewer’s brain activity.

A Brief History of the ATM

Although we use them without a second thought, precious few of us know how they came to sit on our high streets and in the walls of our banks.

A photo of inventor Thomas Edison, who was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847.

17 of the World’s Oldest Films, Captured by Thomas Edison

From the first recording of a kiss to the greatest cat video on the internet, Thomas Edison captured the history of America.

15 Fantastic Custom Made Lunch Boxes

Summer has officially ended, which means all the youngsters are headed back to school, new lunch boxes in hand. If you’re looking for a cool new lunch box for your kiddo or for yourself, here are some of the coolest custom lunchboxes and bags around.

27 Patent-Holding Celebrity Inventors

A number of well-known public figures hold patents for various innovations. Here are a few of our favorites.

6 Non-QWERTY Keyboard Layouts

Not everyone uses QWERTY keyboards! Here are six alternative layouts.

8 Important Daguerreotype Photos

On this date in 1839, the French government released Louis Daguerre’s photographic process to the world—for free.

10 Strange Facts About Hot Air Balloons

Oddities from the oldest form of human flight.

8 Patents for Inventions that Purport to Protect You From Sharks

Sharks have much more to fear from us than we do from them. But that hasn't stopped inventors from dreaming up with devices that will keep people out of Jaws' jaws.

How Scientists Built a Shark-Following Robot for Shark Week

Shark Cam makes its debut in the Shark Week special "Return of Jaws" tonight at 9 p.m. EST on the Discovery Channel; we talked to Skomal about developing the robot and what it revealed that traditional tracking methods did not.

Illustration by James Poupard from "The young mill-wright & miller's guide : in five parts, embellished with twenty five plates" by Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia. Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons//Public Domain

The First 10 U.S. Patents

Although most of the early "X-Patents" are lost, we have a barebones record of what used to be there, giving us a peek into what America’s earliest inventors were up to.

These Wetsuits Could Make You Invisible to Sharks

Surf's up.

Does a Refrigerator Make a Good Faraday Cage?

The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE

In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl+alt+del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Here's the story of how the key combination became famous in the first place.

What Is That? 9 Peculiar Artifacts of Yesteryear

Some of these objects do have modern counterparts. Most serve needs we no longer have.

11 Awesome NERF Facts—Plus, a Contest!

Whether you were playing with your friends or gleefully terrorizing your siblings, few things brought as much joy growing up as NERF’s wide array of toys.

8 Drivers Who Blindly Followed Their GPS Into Disaster

"The machine knows where it's going!"

New Study Shows Humans Feel Empathy for Robots

On the TV show Battlestar Galactica, the humans experience conflicting feelings when dealing with the humanoid Cylons. While some find it easy to torture the robots, even though they resemble humans, many cringe at the thought of terrorizing the Cylons. I

How Do Noise-Canceling Headphones Work?

Noise-canceling headphones seem like an oxymoron: a piece of audio technology that creates silence, rather than noise. They’re useful on planes, in crowded offices, and for light sleepers trying to catch some shut-eye in a thin-walled apartment, but how c

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