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If you were to ask 100 people to pick the single greatest superhero power or sci-fi technology, time travel would almost certainly win. And believe it or not, time travel isn’t entirely outside the realm of reality — for some unified theories of the universe, such as general relativity, traveling in time is actually fairly easy. That’s why two American researchers ...

Researchers in Finland have compiled the first authoritative atlas of “body maps” that detail where we feel emotions. We can now clearly see that happiness actually makes us feel tingly all over, that sadness is felt in the heart, and that depression is characterized by an all-over numbness. It would seem that idioms such as a chest puffed with pride, ...

AFP/Guillermo Legaria Oscar Perez (r.) and Oscar Diaz (l) play tejo, a popular Colombian game that every weekend gathers thousands of fans. Players toss a tejo, or disc, at a metal tube that’s surrounded by bags of gunpowder. As sports go, it is rather old, quite boozy and a tad explosive. It involves trying to hurl a disc into a ...

HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP/Getty Images It was the first-ever armed police operation, officials said. With a population of only 322,000 and one of the lowest crime rates in the world, police rarely draw their weapons in the island nation. LONDON — Police in Iceland said Monday they shot dead a gunman — the first time armed police have killed someone in the ...

The PS4 ships with a reasonably-sized 500GB hard drive, but it’s quite lackluster in terms of speed. The drive only spins at 5400 RPM, but it can be easily upgraded to a better drive — say, a 7200 RPM hard drive — without voiding your warranty. But why stop there? What happens when the default drive is replaced with a ...