A factory tour is always a popular tourist attraction. The team at the Volkswagen Group take it to a new level with the Autostadt — an attraction adjacent to their factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. While there's a lot to see, the major wow factor comes in with a peek at the two 200 foot tall glass silos that store new Volkswagens.

Billion-year-old rocks in the Australian desert have yielded a rare mineral previously thought to only exist on the Moon or in lunar meteor samples that have crash-landed here. Its discovery here on Earth is expected to help scientists better understand the history and geology of the Earth and the moon — which may not be so different after all.

Ars Technica writer Jacqui Cheng deleted a photo of herself off Facebook in May 2009. She was hoping it would be gone for good — as in completely erased. With a little investigative checking, she discovered that the photo was still lingering on Facebook's content delivery network (CDN) servers nearly 16 months after she had hit the delete button.

Do you feel in tune with the colors of the world and how they change with the seasons? Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg of IBM's Visual Communication Lab do. That's why they've created Flickr Flow, a visualization of colors throughout...