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Mysterious magnetic portals link our planet to its star

A new study sheds light on how the brain puts memories away for keeps

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In search of habitable soil, the Mars lander has lost power with no real chance of recovery

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a lovely new exclusive on Left 4 Dead's "Dead Air" campaign. This campaign has the team of survivors making their way to an airport for the final escape. Jim: Finally, with several hundred zombie corpses under

The first officially released screenshots of Deus Ex 3 are starting to circulate around the Internet today. They're small, but we'll take what we can get. Images from CVG These go with an exclusive interview Edge had with the game's

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careysb writes to mention that in the same vein as '*nix tricks' and 'VIM tricks', it would be nice to see one on regular expressions and the programs that use them. What amazingly cool tricks have people discovered with respect

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