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The rural foothills along the Santa Cruz County Coast hold an ancient secret. Deep below the redwoods, White Moon Cave extends for nearly a mile -- making it one of the longest caves in California. But few people have ev...

Minisponges saturated with medicine could work as minimally invasive healing kits. A new class of gel-based sponges can be molded to any shape, soak up drugs or stem cells, shrink down and be injected into the body, wher...

The greatest innovations in engineering from the seafloor to the tallest stone facade.

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: white noise, white smell; the return of bloodletting; and more

Israeli civilians may have a new hero, but the success of Israel's Iron Dome missile interceptor might have unfortunate consequences

Although a critical computer failure seems to spell doom for the COROT satellite, the space telescope might only be mostly dead

Researchers taking a fresh look at photographs of Albert Einstein's brain say they've pinpointed his genius for physics – and violin

California's new emissions trading system could be the start of something much bigger – a truly international carbon market

California's new emissions trading system could be the start of something much bigger – a truly international carbon market

Five relatively straightforward measures could reduce the number of premature births in richer nations, improving health and saving a fortune

Any mixture that contains more than 30 different odours appears similar in smell, creating the olfactory equivalent of white noise and white light

Infrasonic sound can have very unusual non-auditory effects on the body. But does it kill? There’s an elevator in the Brown University Biomed building (hopefully fixed by now) that I’ve heard called “...

Now we are all without excuse, at least when it comes to exercise. A new study on physical activity that involved more than half a million participants over age 40 found that modest exercise increases life expectancy reg...

The hefty exoplanet joins a small handful of worlds outside our solar system that have had their picture taken

Remotely operated excavators for mining in the abyss Centuries of underwater volcanic activity have blanketed the ocean floor in precious metals. Now, with the aid of the world’s most powerful excavation machines,...

After ten years of research, a boat has hit a peak speed of 120 kilometres an hour – snatching the world sailing record in the process

In The Effect, playwright Lucy Prebble explores the relationship between our physical and psychological selves.

Disguising myelin as a red blood cell stops the immune system from treating it as a foreign invader, halting the debilitating symptoms of MS in mice

It was unsanitary and dangerous, but for centuries bloodletting was standard practice. Could it now be used to relieve some of the complications of obesity? (full text available to subscribers)

Extreme events caused by warming are happening much sooner than we thought they would. It's time for Obama to act

It's not all about Silicon Valley anymore – the next Google or Facebook might emerge from a technology hotspot further afield

Now we have a first glimpse of how California's experiment in carbon trading is working out. The state's first auction of industrial permits for greenhouse gases actually happened last week--but results were released on ...