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Skip the telescope and go straight for the math-enabled bespoke clothing. The aspiring rocket scientist in your life probably already has a model space shuttle, a telescope and an impressive cache of gadgets, so donâ€...

IBM is developing a cognitive computing program under a DARPA program and just hit a major high. The Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, recently crowned world champion of supercomputers, jus...

It’s tough to hit a moving rocket with a moving rocket. Here’s how Israel’s new domestic missile defense system is doing it with unprecedented accuracy. The clash between Israel and Hamas-backed figh...

Toni Balcean turned 101 in September. How’d she beat a century? Simple. “Clean living and good Italian wine.” Case closed! Unless, of course, you like science. A retooled Archon Genomics X PRI...

No, this isn’t a blog about genetically modified organisms -- that has been argued enough lately! Instead, in honor of Thanksgiving, I want to talk about regular old selective breeding and the monsters it can crea...

Evidence from a cave in Israel improves our record of changing sea levels over 150,000 years, suggesting predictions of future rises are bang on

Astronauts can only travel so far in existing space suits. What will it take to see the universe? By the time the alarms go off, he’s back on his feet, hoping the rover wasn’t filming, but knowing that it w...

The world's largest wind turbine rotor has blades 75 metres long – each almost the wingspan of an Airbus A380

Inside the Centre is Ray Monk's sensitive, wide-ranging portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear bomb

Time's quantum arrow has a preferred direction, new analysis shows