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It has lost its parent star. It’s lonely way out there in interplanetary space, lonelier still if you don’t have a star to call home. But this solitary life is all CFBDSIR2149 has ever known. Astronomers se...

A Twitter war that's about an actual war. In real time. Israel launched an offensive this morning on "terror sites and operatives in the Gaza strip, chief among them Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets." Except that's not wh...

A new exhibit in Japan will scan visitors, then turn that data into 3-D printed representations. Here's a look at some of those portraits. (via Spoon & Tamago) Click here to enter the gallery

The blooming bacteria that makes its home in your navel is pictured by the Belly Button Biodiversity project

The new laws in Colorado and Washington should provide a testing ground for health effects and for how people behave when drug laws are relaxed (full text available to subscribers)

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: US cannabis laws, hovering moon base, the well-behaved Higgs boson, and more

Climate predictions of intensifying drought are based on an oversimplified picture, a new analysis finds

Rumours that the space agency wants to park a spaceport in orbit near the moon carry a ring of truth, space policy experts say

A new retrospective of Ansel Adams's wilderness photographs shows how this lifelong environmentalist used his skills to capture more than nature

With the release of a new feature film about the nation's 16th president, we revisit a 1957 PopSci article on Lincoln's heroic efforts to modernize the science of war. In between shots of soldiers meeting their brutal en...

When you’re a San Francisco startup looking to raise millions in funding and your secret weapon is a talking teddy bear, you better come ready to impress. Apparently, ToyTalk did just that. Though litt...

Video game developer 22Cans’ Curiosity—What’s Inside the Cube has the net all a-twitter. What is inside the cube? The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? Or better still, the qu...

The first update since the particle's discovery in July shows it behaving exactly as predicted – giving no clues about how to explain things like dark matter

This material absorbs 99.970 percent of light, making it an ideal coating for solar panels. The idea of dark materials might sound familiar to you if you read fantasy trilogies or like casually memorizing lines from Para...

Whole genome sequencing of an MRSA outbreak has identified the person who unwittingly spread the bacteria around a hospital, stopping further infection

Watch the first detailed video capturing jets of air inside bubbles as they produce dramatic splashes

Campaigners linked to the Nordic Cochrane Centre have called on European governments to sue the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche

The Russian government blocked traffic to a file-sharing site and an online library, citing a new law that many fear could curtail internet freedom

Telepresence may soon give us all a physical presence in a remote location. Expect the unexpected

A quick sniff of oxytocin causes men who have a female partner to put more space between themselves and other women