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An all-star team of speculators--scientists, futurists, artists, and more--is premiering an exhibit on the city of the future at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. Here's a look. Click here to enter the gallery To create th...

The "Edison of our age" invented the nickel-metal hybrid battery and helped develop solar panels, rewritable CDs, and flat-panel displays. Stanford R. Ovshinsky, a self-taught, inventive genius who revolutionized the fie...

Plus: A meteor soaring over California, a beautiful aerial view of Greenland's coast, an artist going fully digital, and more amazing photos and illustrations. Click here to enter the gallery

Green building and sustainable design are a trend in California, but nowhere is the urgency greater than in China, where hundreds of millions of people are moving to cities in pursuit of a better life.

A two-laser system can move microscopic objects such as biological cells or space dust

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Triassic heat exterminated life, lethal weapons and civilisation, smart shopping CCTV, and more

Craig Venter has set his sights on Mars; others plan to look for DNA there too. We review some of the challenges they will face

New archaeological evidence opens a new window into London's grim legacy of grave-robbing in the name of science

Hard drives are the workhorse of large storage operations, but a new wave of ultra-dense tape drives is set to replace them

If you've been keeping up on the now very frequent reports of new extrasolar planet discoveries, here's a news flash: an Earth-sized exoplanet has been found orbiting the nearest star!ei

After a full day of operating mill machinery in Spain’s Basque country, Ascensio Zubeldia used to fall into bed drained. Each morning he mulled over the perfect bed—one that makes itself—and then he ...

Meet a poor crazy mixed-up galaxy – it's not a crowd-pleasing spiral or a shapeless blob elliptical, but a spectacular combination of both

Four new toys to take onto the field (and into the endzone) Not everyone takes neighborhood games of touch, flag -- or tackle -- football lightly. It can be serious business, which calls for serious gear -- gear that may...

The marvels of the holographic body-field, the wonders of infoceuticals, archetypal healing modes, and more (full text available to subscribers)

Saturn's largest moon may have been stitched together from the bodies of doomed companions, a process that spawned several icy minions

Store cameras that learn consumers' habits could boost profits and improve the shopping experience, if you don't mind being spied on

Store cameras that learn consumers' habits could boost profits and improve the shopping experience, if you don't mind being spied on

From the very first spear to nuclear bombs, deadly weapons have directed the course of our cultural evolution (full text available to subscribers)

Spinosaurus was even bigger than Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus.