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Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs. While it may have been created as a game, the software's platform is proving versatile enough to use for battlefield training. The

Ancient Lives, a project of citizen scholarship Zooniverse, makes it possible for regular folks with no knowledge of Greek to help with the work of translating important ancient Greek documents. Zooniverse , the citizen-science web portal that asks users to identify lunar craters and spot merging galaxies, now brings crowd-sourced research to the humanities with its Ancient Lives project, in which casual visitors scour images of papyrus fragments, teasing out Greek letters that spell the lives of people who lived in Egypt between the ages of Alexander and Jesus. The papyrus manuscripts come from the rubbish mounds of Oxyrhynchus, a city that flourished along the Nile between the 4th century BC and the Muslim invasion of Egypt in the 7th century AD

Robert Rodriguez was doing 3-D way before it was cool. Now he's testing out a whole crop of moviemaking experiments, including "Aroma-Scope" for his latest Spy Kids installment, and a remake of animated fantasy "Heavy Metal." Robert Rodriguez is like the filmmaker’s version of Cool Record Store Guy . Whatever it is other directors are into now, Rodriguez was into way before anyone else was into it.

A new guerrilla art project asks the city of New York to give the people access to unused public land, and to create a massive network of urban farms.

Meet the next great gonzo engineering project: A 20-mile Red Sea-spanning bridge connecting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The bridge has been spoken about for years and multiple attempts to begin work on it have fallen through; overcoming the odds now will be a feat of both political finesse and engineering. Post-revolution Egypt is reportedly about to embark on an audacious joint construction project with Saudi Arabia: A bridge over the Red Sea that would link the two country's roads and railways

(PhysOrg.com) -- The name of the project -- "photonic neuron" -- was catchy enough, but what really caught Mitchell Nahmias' attention was the opportunity to combine his interests in engineering and neuroscience.

Shunned from new social networking hotness Google+, hacker collective Anonymous is trying to build its own social net, where political dissatisfaction can be voiced without censorship. In other words: an independent state of social networking. Anonymous stepped afoul of Google Plus's terms and conditions last week.

Research universities have been abuzz with what some are calling the “next big thing”: convergence, the integration of the life, engineering and physical sciences.

Robots are getting more expressive, more than being mere lumps of plastic designed to do jobs for us in handy ways. They can now almost sing..

A Brazilian project called ADAPTA will put hundreds of species from the Amazon in conditions that mimic what the world will be like after years of climate change. The mission: to see which animals adapt and which will need our help to survive.

Aw, look at the cute baby! Coloring in the lines! Riding that trike with ease! Looping those shoe laces into bunny ears! You're all grown up now, Twitter! Today, Twitter turns just five years old, but its accomplishments far outweigh that of any adolescent's. And while Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone are blowing out birthday candles on a cake made of black truffles and 140 ounces of gold, like any relative, we thought it the perfect time to highlight what the social network has achieved. After all, just look at how much the San Francisco-based company has to celebrate.

Get ready for the newest way to grab some wheels when you need them. The service, launching in November in San Diego, is gunning for Zipcar by making it easier to pay for and drop off your borrowed car. Zipcar has long dominated the city car-sharing space.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--A high-school student from Fort Worth, Texas, won top honors July 11 at the first annual Google Science Fair for her project on drug resistance in ovarian cancer. Shree Bose, 17, investigated the connection between an enzyme called AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and resistance to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin.

"Inside" stars Emmy Rossum, Intel, and, maybe, you. We go behind the scenes of the latest branded filmmaking adventure. Emmy Rossum’s hair is up in a bun.

Rob Mason was, until recently, a lowly designer of third-party Facebook apps. Now he's at Facebook, where he's designed the most exciting new feature in recent history. He gives us the scoop on how he made it do just one thing--well