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Lamar Smith was not very popular with the Internet a while back. The GOP congressman from Texas sponsored the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which, you may recall, was not well-loved by much of the Internet. He also does...

The 'biggest breakthrough since the jet' could reach anywhere in the world in just four hours or power a spaceplane into orbit with no need for rocket stages. The Skylon, a concept spaceplane that (theoretically) could g...

For many years, this dinosaur was mistakenly called Brontosaurus.

A transistor that controls the flow of atoms, rather than electrons, could be used as a model to probe the mysterious electrical property of superconductivity

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: what truly exists, back to the moon, bee intelligence, European climate change survivor's guide, and more

A fairly small galaxy is host to a strangely enormous black hole, which could be a remnant of a quasar from the dawn of time

A new report gives a clear picture of how global warming is affecting Europe – so how must countries adapt to survive? (full text available to subscribers)

Last June, Gov. Jerry Brown directed state agencies to change California's flammability standard to ensure fire safety without dousing furniture and other foam products with toxic chemicals. Now activists are focusing on...

British researchers successfully restored the ability to walk in paralyzed dogs. Special cells taken from the dogs’ noses and transplanted to injured areas caused regrowth of neurons. Within six months the dogs am...

Transformers ranks as one of the top franchises in the entertainment industry, so it should come as no surprise that transforming robots are an ongoing pet project for robotics developers. But developing a working rob...

The end of Saturn's 15-year winter reveals a huge hurricane-like vortex at the centre of the mysterious hexagon that tops the ringed planet

Gadgets and the Internet are big in South Korea. Really big, as this Associated Press story points out. Now "addiction" to the devices is enough of a problem that the government is stepping in. Officials plan to make man...

Watch an animation that tries to pin down the size of the universe, the largest thing that exists

Bees do remarkable things with a brain the size of a pinhead, raising some intriguing questions about the nature of intelligence for David Robson (full text available to subscribers)

A NASA mission might focus on the dark side, while a private mission may attempt something even more novel

ESA's redesigned cargo drone will give NASA's Orion spacecraft air, power and manoeuvrability on two new trips to the moon

The famous twists of DNA's double helix have been seen with the aid of an electron microscope and a silicon bed of nails

CultureLab picks the best books to delight the scientifically curious this holiday season

Forging scientific links may be one of the best ways to help bring rogue states back into the international fold

Some say we should accept that entities such as atomic particles really do exist. Others bitterly disagree. There is a way out, says Eric Scerri (full text available to subscribers)

The results of the international committee appointed by the the MIUR (Ministry of University and Research) for the costing review of the SuperB flagship project were examined yesterday by the Minister of Research, France...