Researchers at Ghent University in Belgium have fabricated the world map on a tiny silicon chip.

The Center for Ocean Solutions and the International League of Conservation Photographers interview leading scientists on how climate change could affect the world's oceans.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military depends on an array of drones to snoop on and stalk insurgents. Now it looks as if insurgents are tapping into those same drones' broadcasts, to see what the flying robot spies see. It's potentially one of the most serious military security breaches in years.

The male, geeky, Star Trek-loving stereotype of computer scientists may be deterring women from joining their ranks, according to a new study.

The Wright brothers put all the pieces together: a heavier-than-air machine flying under its own power, and controlled by pilot. This could go places.

Some 400 mobile seismic stations inch eastward across North America, as the researchers behind the US Array Project work to explain the slow quakes rumbling across the Pacific Northwest.

The classic movie's air rifle and decoder ring were cool back in 1983, but they're quaint today. Here's Wired's update.

Ryan Tibshirani was tired of losing at darts, so the Stanford statistics student put his math skills to use, calculating where he should aim to maximize his points. His app's online for pub athletes everywhere.

The online classroom isn't the same one you remember from your flesh-and-blood college days. These courses have traded in textbooks for PDFs and chalkboards for web forums. If you want to make the grade, you better study up the new rules of today's online classroom.

The House of Representatives is declining to take up legislation to refine the nation's spy laws under the Patriot Act, and instead is extending three expiring provisions of the measure for two months.

Your cable provider's DVRs are cheap compared to the alternatives, but the low cost comes at the expense of attractive features like a bigger hard drive. Luckily, with only a little risk, you can upgrade your DVR just like your computer.

Saving Earth from an asteroid will take unprecedented international collaboration. Some methods of deflecting an asteroid away from Earth will require temporarily putting some countries in more danger, so it could be understandably difficult to get those countries to sign on to the idea.

A few users have hacked Barnes & Noble's Nook e-book reader to run Pandora and other apps.

Microsoft has to offer a choice of browsers to Europeans who use Windows or buy a new PC, thanks to an agreement with European regulators. The agreement gets Microsoft off the hook for abusing its operating-system dominance to keep its lagging Internet Explorer browser in first place.

Time to ditch that college era snowboard for something a bit more grownup and a lot more responsive. The tough-as-Tenzig-Norgay Storm-R from boutique-boardmaker Venture just might be what you're looking for.

Astronomers have spotted the most Earth-like planet to date, but we think it needs a better name. What should it be? Submit your suggestions and vote.

Astronomers have discovered a hot, watery planet that is just six times bigger than Earth. And it's just around the corner.

The e-book service Shortcovers relaunches itself today as Kobo, with an expanded catalog, partnerships with major bookstores and publishers, and e-books that will work with many different readers, including the iPhone.

With all the remote drones, robots and sensors we're likely to see on the future battlefield, the challenge will be to bring all that digital information to the individual soldier. A system that would function as a remote control for various robotic devices is in development now.

Providing clean-burning stoves for 500 million households could do more to stave off global warming in the short term than trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and cost far less.