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Make sure nobody will ever see your classified documents. Before you sell, donate, or recycle your old computer, beware: You may be handing personal information to strangers. Simply restoring the operating system to fact...

A new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art celebrates Kubrick's pioneering embrace of cutting-edge technologies, from Steadicams to NASA satellite lenses. As you wander through the Los Angeles County Museum of...

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: US states vote to try pot, Oliver Sacks, India's thorium nuclear dream, cancer drug pairings, and more

Look, you weasely little gadget. I trained for years to be able to do what you do so coldly and casually and perfectly. There isn't room on this piano bench for the two of us. Sight-reading complex musical notation takes...

Systematic testing of all 5000 possible cancer drug combinations has revealed unexpectedly effective new pairings

An inexpensive diagnostic test made from paper has been developed that can assess liver health in only 15 minutes and for only pennies a test. The test uses a single drop of blood from a fingerprick to measure the presen...

Learn about what we can do to take care of our oceans, both for the fish and ourselves.

A Microsoft English-to-Mandarin translation system has astonished a Chinese crowd with the power of its speech engine – and what it means for the future

Several projects are trying to reverse-engineer the brain. In How to Create a Mind, futurist Ray Kurzweil champions their cause

The chocolate-Nobel link, LOL out loud, the spineless inherit the Earth, and more (full text available to subscribers)

It's taken 60 years, but India finally appears poised to capitalise on its abundance of thorium, by using it to power an upcoming nuclear facility