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Cameras that can be mounted on helmets or weapons will help warfighters see in the dark and in all kinds of weather. Warfighters have a whole suite of cameras they can use to see in the dark, through fog or smoke, and in...

With voting underway across the US today, a few hiccups have appeared in electronic voting machines

This is how the just-released game Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube? works: Anyone with an iPhone or iPad can download the iOS app. With the app, the players connect on the Internet, furiously tapping on their screens t...

After the devastation of superstorm Sandy New York City needs a rescue plan – and it should include abandonment of areas that cannot be protected

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Superman's home star, lice in human evolution, transformer universe, Sandy aftermath, and more

Especially since it would probably increase voter turnout! It's the 21st century! Why can't we tweet or text our Designated Polling Station and have our votes counted that way? Well, because of fraud, mostly. Deciding th...

Some favour the erection of massive flood barriers, others prefer a soft approach that would engineer the natural environment, but which would work best? (full text available to subscribers)

Beneath the destruction brought by superstorm Sandy lies a more insidious problem. Rising sea levels are corroding the very foundations of the Big Apple (full text available to subscribers)

Oxford visionary David Deutsch has posted a glimpse of his long-awaited theory for why the universe is just so – possibly spawning a new branch of physics

A forest- loving photographer hid in a Finnish wood on a winter's night to capture this award-winning long exposure of white-tailed deer

The muscled Meshworm prototype mimics annelid locomotion. "If you don’t have legs, you can propel yourself by deforming your body. Earthworms do this through peristaltic locomotion: The muscles in one body segment...

Happy election day! Surely you're not already tired of social media updates about politics, or the self-congratulatory Twitter messages from your friends who got up earlier than you did to stand in line. Now you can also...

They're not only more efficient--they're better, too. These three gadgets are about to get out of your dreams and into your car. THE TREND Dashboard navigation and entertainment systems are optional on most late-model ca...

The strongest sign yet of dark matter interactions at the centre of our galaxy may have just faded into statistical insignificance

In A Little History of Science, historian William Bynum attempts to tell the sweeping tale of science – and nearly pulls it off

The orang-utans of Borneo and Sumatra have antibodies to a host of dangerous African viruses, including Ebola and Marburg

We've got head, pubic and clothing lice, all with tales to tell about evolution, including how our ancestors cosied up to gorillas (full text available to subscribers)

Cars that speak to one another could decide who gets the green light at busy junctions, and slash commuting times.

Comic book fans previously knew only the name of Superman's home planet, Krypton. Now thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson, they can look for it in the night sky

Technology-obsessed artist Hojun Song has built a DIY satellite, but is finding it much harder to sell T-shirts to pay for the launch

Technology-obsessed artist Hojun Song has built his own satellite, but is finding it much harder to sell T-shirts to pay for the launch