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China's censors have innovative ways of stopping its citizens accessing banned websites, including poisoning internet servers (full text available to subscribers)

The idea that Viagra helps out athletes has been around for years now, but is there a scientific consensus on it? Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall caused a great engorgement in the wit of the sports commentariat when...

KQED Science explores the growing pains of building an electric car charging network and the fledgling new industry rising up to meet the challenge.

NASA is preparing to make a big announcement concerning Mars and a recent discovery by the SAM instrument on board the rover Curiosity, though has qualified the nature of the announcement to scientifically interesting, a...

See what happens inside a kettle when liquid overheats, creating a boiling crisis

Hyperspectral images capture the mysterious beauty of this phenomenon. In pictures and in person, the Earth's aurora looks sorta like wispy clouds made of emerald fuzz. That's gorgeous and all, but we need a clearer pict...

Just as protocol standards needed to be established for the Internet to really take off, so must standards be established for what many are calling the next technology revolution: the Internet of Things. As more of our m...

It had been thought that the canyon formed 6 million years ago, but now two geologists say it is actually closer to 70 million years old

A test kit for unidentified substances, a metal detector for picking up chemtrails, and more It's easy to forget that person in your life who abandoned all electronics and moved into the woods to prepare for the Mayan ap...

New Scientist looks back at the video games that explored the boundaries of science and technology this year

The first of the month is always a big one. Which dates matter? All of them, of course. But there are some we talk about more than others, and this calendar from web comic xkcd gives those dates prime real estate. Creato...

A prize for the first person to figure out how a strange mirror image remains in view

Next-gen combat fatigues could incorporate a new kind of breathable fabric that instantly turns into a protective shell in the presence of chemical or biological threats. Soldiers on the battlefield may soon be getting a...

As the recession bites and budgets are cut, websites are springing up that allow citizens to club together to fund everything from parks to bridges

Whether it's water, oil, ketchup or ants, materials that repel everything that touches them are on the way, says Jessica Griggs (full text available to subscribers)

Why these words break the law, impure apples, Google rewrites the history of everything, and more (full text available to subscribers)

The deadline for the Quantum Shorts Film Competition is hard on us and we've already had some amazing entries – submit yours before Sunday

Purely by accident, the Higgs-boson-hunting Large Hadron Collider may have stumbled upon a rare state of matter called a colour-glass condensate

A slow and steady rescue mission has seen the population of the iconic creatures on Española Island leap from just 12 into the thousands

ASPERA - Brussels - 30 November 2012. European funding agencies for astroparticle physics celebrate today the successful work of the ASPERA European funded network and the launch of the newly founded APPEC, the Astropart...