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Potential to make better solar cells? Check. Improved televisions down the road? Check. Pretty? Check. It's difficult to manage color when you get to the nanoscale, but researchers from King's College London have found a...

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: how the sun is messing with the elements, and more

Disney researchers invented a humanoid animatron that plays a lifelike game of catch. Fancy a round of catch? This Disney robot plays an eerily humanlike game. In a combination of engineering and sorcery, researchers cre...

Neon-bright images of a mouse's brain show what happens when a missing gene makes neurons lose their way

Existing government pledges are not enough to stop dangerous climate change - in fact they are falling further short than ever

While information technology may be advancing exponentially—the pace of the space race has seemed glacial since the 1970s. By now, most of us are used to a top-down, monolithic model of space exploration with asso...

Ex-NASA astronauts and engineers may be planning to fly people to the moon, but in any case the moon ought to be open for business soon

Retro games make thoughtful gifts. So do new games. So do things that aren't related to games at all. Here's a few ideas to get you started. Gamers are tough to shop for. You can bet they've already got the big ticket it...

Nothing is supposed to speed up or slow down radioactive decay. So how come the sun seems to be messing with some of our elements? Stuart Clark investigates (full text available to subscribers)

The Curiosity rover suggests radiation levels on the Red Planet are the same as those astronauts face in low Earth orbit, but the journey there is risky

High levels of methane over a large area of Australia's Tara gas field suggests the fracking process may cause gas to leak from the ground

In the beautifully illustrated Extinct Boids, cartoonist Ralph Steadman and film-maker Ceri Levy reimagine birds of the past, both real and fanciful

Some medical practices of the past were not exactly evidence-based

Using maggots to turn poo into protein could offer a whole new source of food for farm animals (full text available to subscribers)

Kappa And b could be a super-Jupiter, or it could be a brown dwarf--the exoplanet orbiting a nearby star is so big scientists aren't quite sure what to call it. You know we’ve found something new and interesting w...