The marriage of hard drives and camcorders means the days of hauling around blank tapes or discs to record your family vacations are long gone. Here are three of the best in the standard-definition category, as rated by TechNewsDaily’s sister site, TopTenReviews: No. 1: Panasonic SDR-H200 The top standard-definition camcorder...

Watching Angelina Jolie kick robot butt in the 2001 movie Tomb Raider makes viewers expect real-world women to be both bold and beautiful — an ideal that has been linked to disordered eating. College students who watched clips of beautiful and aggressive women such as Jolie were more likely than...

Fact or Fantasy? Still of Zoe Saldana in Avatar (Image credit: © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox)The stuff of fantasy and science fiction seem more and more like reality as science and technology continue to advance. Why not then look at imaginary worlds to get a glimpse at what tomorrow might...

Pink noise is a color of noise, not entirely unlike white noise. Both white noise and pink noise contain all the frequencies that are audible to humans — 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz — but the way their signal power is distributed among those frequencies differs. White noise has equal...

Today's Google Doodle commemorates actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, on what would have been her 99th birthday. During World War II, Lamarr designed a system to safeguard homing signals on torpedoes launched by Allied forces, protecting them from Nazi interception by hopping between radio frequencies. Her patent, co-created with composer...

Most people will never have the experience of flying high over Earth in a spacecraft and seeing the planet's atmosphere, oceans and landmasses unspooling far below. But now, Earthbound humans can look down on their planet in a way that emulates an astronaut's perspective more closely than anything ever seen...

A dramatically choreographed performance that veered from gracefully spinning aerialists to gyrating, hoop-wielding dancers wearing glow-in-the-dark costumes, twirled its way to first place in the annual Dance Your Ph.D. Contest. The video, titled Representations of the Braid Groups, describes mathematics principles about braid behavior that might leave non-mathematicians scratching their...

There's a secret hidden in a Vincent van Gogh painting. It remained undetected for 128 years, until Mary Schafer, a paintings conservator at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Missouri, discovered it with the aid of a surgical microscope — imbedded in the paint in the foreground of van Gogh's 1889...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. When he published The Sun Also Rises in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and to cosmopolitan literary circles in New York and Chicago....

The new series debuts on the Science Channel today (Nov. 15) at 9 p.m. ET, with two new hosts presenting a bevy of new myths to be busted. And blown up. And hacked into pieces by sword-wielding robots. You know — the usual. [What Is Punkin Chunkin? - Exclusive 'Mythbusters'...

A painting by Leonardo da Vinci that preserves the artist's own handprints sold for more than $450 million at auction tonight (Nov. 15), obliterating the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction, according to Christie's Auction House. Christie's presented the painting, which depicts Jesus Christ...

A viral video showing hundreds of years of varnish being wiped off a centuries-old painting has horrified experts in the field. The short video was posted on Twitter by the art dealer Philip Mould, who hosts the BBC TV show Fake or Fortune? and was involved in the cleaning process,...

Watery walls (Image credit: Photo by Tahsin Ceylan)A diving team led by Tahsin Ceylan, an underwater photographer who has been documenting sites beneath Lake Van in Turkey, has discovered the remains of what may be a castle beneath the waters of the lake. It is about 1 kilometer (less than...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 94-year-old, brightly colored sphinx that once graced the set of the 1923 Hollywood blockbuster, The Ten Commandments, according to an announcement released Monday (Nov. 27) from the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center. The 300-lb. (136 kilogram) plaster-of-paris sphinx is in remarkably good condition, said Doug Jenzen, executive director...

Leila Amineddoleh is the founder and managing partner of Amineddoleh & Associates, LLP in New York City, where she specializes in art, cultural heritage and intellectual property law. Amineddoleh contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Last month, I was lucky enough to enjoy a private...