Samsung, Google, and Sprint are all trying to figure out why some users' Nexus S phones are nuking pictures without…
Faulty Pitot tubes—speed sensors that are crucial for auto-pilot navigation—surfaced as one of the leading theories…
Watermelons are bursting at the seams in farms throughout southeastern China, and no one is quite sure what's…

In Basking Ridge, New Jersey, a strange hole recently appeared in an unsuspecting lawn. This spontaneous divot has…
Joel: I honestly cannot see what makes this Converse watch "Video game-inspired"
Fahey: Well it's got....um.…
So, you know those black boxes they found from Air France Flight 447, which crashed midway between a flight from Sao…
A "tall, burly" and "unruly" passenger on a Houston-to-Chicago Continental flight scared the shit out of his fellow…
Over two years ago, Air France Flight 447 crashed midway through a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil and Paris, France.…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology doesn't just produce technical specifications for everything…
One of the most horrific and mysterious deaths in space is that of USSR cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, a close friend…
A recent National Geographic special on finding the lost city of Atlantis left people wondering whether this…
Henry VIII achieved enduring fame (and portrayal by a series of skinnier and skinnier actors) by lopping off heads…
Unforgiving sun, punishingly hot days, freezing nights, no water, and a name like Death Valley keep people away from…
The Voynich Manuscript first came to (modern) light in 1912. It is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a rare book dealer…
Police called to the scene of a small accident in Manhattan found a fun surprise in the trunk of one of the cars!…
We've been having withdrawal symptoms from Adam-Troy Castro's addictive Andrea Cort novels, so we're thrilled to…
Bulgarian cybercrime blogger Dancho Danchev mysteriously vanished a few weeks ago, worrying his colleagues and the…

Friday we posted a film clip from 1945, in which women were pummeled and prodded by machines. On Saturday, we…
This isn't good. Dancho Danchev, a ZDNet blogger specializing in malware and cybercrime, has been missing since…