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As anyone who has tried it knows, stacking pistons on top of each other in order to combine their effects is really, really complicated. Stacking two on top of each other is only slightly hard, but the difficulty rises exponentially with each added piston. Stacking three is pretty tough, and stacking four is downright ridiculous.

Check out this how to article that shows you how to turn that old TV sitting in your basement into an awesome custom fish tank!

If you have a PS2/PS3 Eyetoy, but don't want to go and spend $30+ dollars on a new webcam, then this is for you.

This program makes Google Music a lot easier to use! If you are like me and frequently have the need to skip a song or pause momentarily, then this client will enable you to do this from your desktop instead of navigating to the correct tab and finding the skip or pause button.

Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas in last month's Mad Science contest. The question called for your best idea for using Sugru, a temporarily malleable silicone modeling clay that self cures for a soft-touch permanent bond. It's a marvelous product for at-home quick fixes and for even making some cool DIY bumpers and grips for your electronics.

This contest has ended and winners have been announced. To see who won, check out our quick winners post. Thanks to everyone for submitting their ideas!

Congress is asking top U.S. defense contractors to disclose their corporate plans if the military is forced to cut $500 billion from its budget early next year, putting the companies in the middle of a political fight between Republicans and the White House.

Observations of a distant dust-filled solar system have shed light on the process of planet formation.

Not to be confused with the band, ABBA switches are so named because they reverse outputs such that they fire in A-B-B-A order. So, your redstone devices will essentially fire in one order (A and then B) when activated, and then deactivate in the reverse order (B and then A).

Right now, Jupiter and Venus are rising in the early morning hours just before dawn. I went outside on the morning of the 4th of July and saw Jupiter and Venus right next to each other with the Pleiades (The Seven Sisters) just above them and knew that the next morning I was going to have to get up early and set up my tripod to try and capture what I saw. I used my Panasonic GH2 with the stock zoom lens set to about 40 to 50 mm equivalent and with the aperture open to about f/5. I set my ISO to...

First off—Happy Independence Day! Since it's the 4th of July, let's make this week's roundup short and sweet, so you can all get back to your holiday festivities.

No one can deny that Bashar Al-Assad's regime has been responsible for violence. But in failing to equally acknowledge the fact that NATO-backed rebels have also carried out innumerable atrocities is not only dishonest, it represents a deliberate effort by the press to manipulate the narrative of unfolding events in Syria as a one-sided war crime rather than the truth – which is the fact that Syria is in a state of civil war.

Check out how to make a sweet cat bed out of an old computer monitor!

Check out how to make this sweet cup sleeve that any and all geeks will appreciate!

I was messing around in single player, (because the server is down) when a wild idea came to my mind. To build a printer, i have seen many examples on youtube, but all of them where to complex to my understanding of redstone. The end result was simple and it could save 4 images.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse are set to unleash "shocking" revelations about Barack Obama's birth certificate at a press conference later this month, information described as "breathtaking" by lead investigator Mike Zullo.

I have decided to enter my first staff choice award with a working 12minute redstone clock, it counts seconds and minutes. The clock works on 4 simple piston binary belts. Its is possible to make it 12 hour clock but unfortunately, the mountain i was building it in was to small for that.

So this is what I did for the dashbount phone holder. I used a cologne box. A lot of them come with another box inside thats much more sturdier than the one on the ouside.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, speaks with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren about the bipartisan contempt vote of Eric Holder and the difference between being held in contempt both criminally and civilly.

The big question this week would be the controversial Obamacare mandate. And heres the answer: Yes. Obamacare passes Congress' filters and is now an official OK.

The new Android Google+ App is looking great. Unfortunately, I don't have the new version just yet, but you can grab a preview with +Carter Gibson's tour.

If you're familiar with games like Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress 2, then you've probably seen some of the cool animated movies that Valve has made for them using their Source Filmmaker moviemaking software. It's a tool built to make animated films inside their Source game engine. It's even been licensed to make the upcoming animated film Deep.

WonderHowTo is a how-to website made up of niche communities called Worlds, with topics ranging from Minecraft to science experiments to Scrabble and everything in-between. Check in every Wednesday evening for a roundup of user-run activities and how-to projects from the communities.

Check out this cool How-To about making a manly curtain from a wool blanket! It is great for a man cave!

If you're not into making your own Scrabble coasters out of Scrabble tiles, these are the next best thing (though a little more complicated). And better than having tons of tiles on the same coaster is just being one tile itself, so you can make words out of the coasters!

I don't want to say too much, because it's best to read it first-hand, but it's a very nice story about a deaf woman who had cochlear implants that helped her hear again. Trouble is, a great deal of her vocabulary was lost while she was deaf, but nightly games of Scrabble with her husband quickly got her vocabulary back in shape!

A nice infomatic showing three possible (simultaneous) outcomes as a result of the breaking down of the Euro

Tsa whistleblower calls alex jones and reveals the tsa are hiring harden criminals on purpose!

Founder of the Wikileaks website walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy on Tuesday and has been staying there ever since. British authorities say they will arrest Assange if he leaves the embassy. Henry Ridgwell reports from London.

The people of Iceland forced their corrupt government to resign.A public assembly was created to rewrite the constitution.