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While many new missions launched, a couple of asteroid-bound robots reached their destinations after months of travel. Japan’s Hayabusa-2 arrived at the space rock Ryugu, dropped rovers on its surface and sent back some trippy footage. Meanwhile, NASA’s Osiris-Rex reached the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu and began surveying its temporary home. Both missions aim to eventually collect a small sample from their hosts and return them to Earth for further study. 

When she approached Dr. Eric Stem of Lowcountry Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, her doctor of 10 years, he told her she could have a knee replacement that fit her anatomy perfectly.

As parents, we all want a way to preserve precious and irreplaceable memories of our children. But oh my God, the mess all that stuff makes By, like, year three of a kid’s life, they’ve accumulated boxes of art projects, eight billion photos, and enough DIY crafts from preschool and grandma’s house to start a landfill in the living room. Quite simply, it’s just impossible for parents to keep every single thing their kids make and do, and that’s why they have to be super smart about what items they decide to keep, how they make new keepsakes going forward, and where they decide to store all the precious stuff they’ve accumulated.

And there are those in tech who disagree that screens are dangerous. Jason Toff, 32, who ran the video platform Vine and now works for Google, lets his 3-year-old play on an iPad, which he believes is no better or worse than a book. This opinion is unpopular enough with his fellow tech workers that he feels there is now “a stigma.”

6. Tombstone of Nicolas Flamel. Paris, 15th century © Paris, Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge. 

When Ms. Strauss-Gabel asked Mr. Green if he would be interested in making his novels a test case for the format in the United States, he was immediately intrigued.

The new service will be called Shonen Jump and it will launch on Dec. 17. The service will apparently continue to make content available on a weekly basis, but instead of making a large bungle of manga at once, it’ll focus on individual chapter releases.

The hunters of vintage copies, the ones their parents or grandparents had—the good old days of Jell-O salad, tuna casserole, canapés and cocktails—end up in shops like Bonnie Slotnick’s.

Imagine exchanging 3D printed gifts with friends and families while enjoying 3D printed candies, and admiring a home full of 3D printed decorations. Just as it has changed many applications and industries, 3D printing has the potential to add an entirely new dimension to classic Christmas traditions.

18 child drawings get scanned, shrunken down, and neatly displayed in two frames with this genius tutorial from How Does She.

Google has a cache, which it is tirelessly analyzing for clues and content. For a record of a single weekend, this nebulous digital archive is surprisingly unapproachable. And it has already begun its decay.

So, the rich don’t give all that much to charity. What do they get in return for what they do give? For starters, tax breaks. Costly ones. The general rule: For every three dollars that 1 percenters in the United States contribute, the federal government loses one dollar in lost tax revenue.