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The light walls simulate sunlight but don't generate UV radiation. Days will keep getting shorter as we approach the winter solstice, which means fewer and fewer hours of sunlight. That can be depressing at normal mid-No...

The winter solstice brings shifts in temperature and icy weather as the sun dips to its lowest point in the sky.

More valuable than gold, this great rock unit forms part of the Bay Area's landscape.

The innermost planet of the solar system could harbour a small polar habitable zone – but the chances of finding life there are remote

By "tagging" the ideal shot through the rifle scope before firing, shooters may never miss again. Taking the "sport" out of "sport shooting" and the "man" out of "marksman," a company called TrackingPoint has developed w...

Estimates made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 were wildly wrong

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The service will start with stores in the Netherlands and Belgium in early 2013, then move on "quickly" to other countries. 3-D printing is at an awkward, prepubescent stage right now. The printers aren't exactly common,...

A rubber seal decoy tempted this great white shark enough to throw itself bodily out of the waters of False Bay, South Africa

The International Atomic Energy Agency is meeting in Vienna to consider emerging clues that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon

Control over movement has been improved by mimicking the passage of nerve signals to muscles

In a word, terrible. On the bright side, your odds of becoming a pro athlete are good by comparison! People have just won that ridiculous, record-breaking $579.9 million Powerball jackpot. Two people, even! But you know ...

Thanks to work of pathologist Thomas Harvey to preserve Albert Eisntein’s brain decades ago, we can continue to busy ourselves today with trying to figure out what made Albert Einstein so smart. Knowing t...

One of the world's most wide-field radio telescopes may be able to track all the space junk orbiting our planet using stray FM signals from our radios

Food safety experts in Europe have found serious flaws in a paper claiming GM maize caused tumours in rats

Robot submarines often still need a helpful human to guide them – but better software could help them become more independent

Darwin's pigeons and the world's most expensive book – a new gallery tells the stories behind the treasures in London's Natural History Museum

What's the point of going back to the moon? Who needs a reason? It's just there

Money's tight, but so is time to prepare for the effects of climate change

The new game sees players do battle via smartphones as they roam their city – but it's paving the way for something even more interesting

The new game sees players do battle via smartphones as they roam their city – but it's paving the way for something even more interesting

Nuclear war, climate change, lab-created viruses and out-of-control machines need to be understood, but there are risks to lumping threats together