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“Personal robots are one of the great unfulfilled promises of science fiction, because today they’re either plastic toys or million dollar tech showpieces.” That’s what Keller Rinaudo of R...

Faint light from stars ripped from their homes during galaxy mergers may explain weird splotches in the infrared sky

A room full of computers gets shut down while the missile flies by above the building. In whatever sense that there's a "good" missile, this new one from Boeing seems like it. Rather than a missile that demolishes a targ...

An implant helping paralysed people stand unaided suggests the spinal cord is able to recover function years after severe damage (full text available to subscribers)

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Small World prize, the blurred line between life and death, spinal cord damage repaired, and more

Why isn’t that a law? You may have muttered this phrase or heard someone else say it out of frustration, but chances are that question has popped up in conversation in one form or another. It’s the unive...

Watch a tool-wielding crow extract hidden food using an extreme bird's eye view

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's private spaceflight endeavor, usually quite secretive about its West Texas operations, gives us a peek at its latest test launch. On Friday, private spaceflight venture Blue Origin conducted a suc...

Curiosity is scooping lots of sand nowadays, and using its laser to study what the sand contains. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been scooping Martian sand inside itself to rinse out its instruments, and it�...

Craig Venter's plan to sequence the Martian genome sounds ambitious but DNA may be found on the Red Planet if we know how and where to look

Craig Venter's plan to sequence the Martian genome sounds ambitious but DNA may be found on the Red Planet if we know how and where to look

A single image of more than 84 million stars at the heart of the Milky Way will help astronomers learn more about the make-up of our galaxy

Fear of specific memories can be eased by exposing the sleeping brain to associated odours

A new model suggests we have misunderstood the way malaria will spread as global temperatures rise – but not everyone is convinced

Saudi Arabia has dismissed its top virus-hunter for sharing his discovery of a virus that hardly threatens anyone

It's now easier than ever to be declared dead – even when you're still moving, sweating, and there's blood pumping around your body (full text available to subscribers)

This week, more than 200 scientists from all over the world are meeting for The International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (://.lcws12.org) at The University of Texas at Arlington. They're edging closer to a Techn...

Chi-Chang Kao, an associate laboratory director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been named as the lab's fifth director, Stanford University President John Hennessy announced today. Kao will succeed Persis S....

From the PopSci archives: These inventions may have silenced snores, but they were totally evil. Snorers are selfish, horrible people, it's true. But no one - no matter how annoying their bodily sounds are - deserves to ...