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The startup launched by an iRobot co-founder is focused on making robots simple again. Earlier this week news crossed our radar that iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner’s new robotics startup was coming out of “...

Robots aren't the only ones heading to the moon. The Golden Spike Company will sell you a ticket whether you want to explore, mine or just show off

The rotorcraft of the future will be robotic, and the Army is already working on the technology via an autonomous UH-60 Black Hawk demonstrator. Our brand new drones aren’t the only things becoming increasingly au...

The periodic table arranges all of the known elements in an informative array.

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: NASA's next Mars rover, the night-time world from space, US dash for gas, Kyoto protocol redux, and more

The winner of the GenArt 2012 image competition reveals the power of deep genetic sequencing to understand deafness

Just weeks before it is due to expire, the world's only binding climate agreement appears to have been saved – sort of

The Global Design Effort and ILC Research Directorate, the international planning team for the International Linear Collider (ILC), will hand over the draft of the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR) to its internal oversi...

Three students at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand set out to bring a very famous lamp to life: Pixar’s lamp from its Luxo Jr animated short. The project, dubbed Pinokio, was for their Ph...

When asked by his colleagues why he spent so much time talking about science instead of doing science, Carl Sagan answered, “When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.” I think Jason Silva can re...

Cloud computing resources can be hijacked by exploiting loopholes in browsers

In Why Humans Like to Cry, Michael Trimble argues that tears of sadness provide a type of joy, that may have co-evolved with tragedy

Manipulating the acidity where a reef lives gives us a window into the effects of climate change. When marine biologist David Kline, of Australia’s University of Queensland, set out for Heron Island in the Great B...

An environmental policy researcher argues that the British government's new emphasis on gas power and fracking puts the climate and consumers at risk

CERN[1] and the City and Canton of Geneva today announce the second open call for entries in the Collide@CERN-Geneva[2] award. This year, the award funded by the City and Canton of Geneva, will be made specifically in fi...

A 16-year-old's homemade wireless robotic limb. Two summers ago, Easton LaChappelle thought it would be fun to build a robotic arm controlled wirelessly using a glove. LaChappelle, then 14, knew nothing about electronics...

Software that delegates tricky problems to human workers is changing the nature of crowdsourcing

See humanity's global footprint in our night-time glow seen from orbit – from the dark realm of North Korea to oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

From scores of entries into this year's flash fiction competition, here is the fantastic shortlist. Story four of five: Too Good to be True by Jouni Sarkijarvi

Smartphone encryption tools will make it easier to keep your calls private

Cameras on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have taken pictures of the impact sites. When the Mars Rover Curiosity left Earth, it was carrying a cruise stage, whose parts included a sun sensor and star scanner, propellant...

The discovery that lipids are vital for an important stage of cell division could offer new ways to treat cancer and rare genetic disorders