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When light slows to the speed of a stroll, things get very, very strange. Many have wondered (and theorized) what it would be like to travel at the speed of light, but over at MIT’s Game Lab developers are envisio...

Watch adults blind from birth "see" for the first time thanks to a system that transforms objects into soundscapes

The string of atolls has switched fully from expensive and environmentally harmful diesel generators to solar energy. The remote island chain of Tokelau, positioned between New Zealand and Hawaii in the Pacific, suddenly...

The huge black hole at the centre of our galaxy is no whippersnapper – but it's still flaring up like an active youngster

Sharing a cloud server with others could put your secret keys at risk

Researchers in Germany have identified compounds in durian that might be responsible for its unique smell.

The trip to the dentist just got a little less painful, at least in terms of time spent there. A new system is being used by a handful of dentists to scan patients’ teeth and create crowns for them while they wait...

Our hunt for intriguing new tech research recently turned up a mini-buzz about some so-called “magic powder” freezing water droplets. Following are some cool high-speed photographic sequences in a video from ...

The intricate connections between genetics, psychological make-up and whether you swing to the left or right at elections are starting to be unravelled (full text available to subscribers)

The small company put millions into locking down more than 300 new-suffix domains like .movie and .buy. Cue messy legal squabble. When the so-called top-level domain names--with suffixes like .buy, .apple, or .book inste...

A re-elected Barack Obama says he wants an America "that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet". But how can he get it?

By 2020, three-quarters of the US satellite instruments used to monitor Earth's weather and climate could be out of action. We need to launch more, and fast

The history of tuberculosis is rich with struggles and successes. But in Spitting Blood, Helen Bynum gets too bogged down in facts to draw the bigger picture

A fawning Bravo reality show skewers Silicon Valley more effectively than anyone else who's tried (and many have tried). In a spectacular Sufjan-Stevensesque gimmick, Bravo has quietly pledged to create a television seri...

A new Kickstarter project is raising money to turn city billboards into suspended bamboo gardens. In areas that allow unlimited billboard construction, the side of the road can look like a peeling, rusty forest. Signs th...