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The new DARPA-developed technology is aimed at buying soldiers enough time to get medical care. Following the debut of an amazing new shapeshifting material that could improve drug delivery, military-tech wing DARPA has ...

A map of when artist Marcin Ignac used his computer, when he didn't, and what he was seeing For a project titled Every Day of My Life, artist/programmer/designer Marcin Ignac used software to track, measure, and visualiz...

Watch it stretch. We see a lot of robots here, including some that mimic human movement. But this one gets a special prize for having the most muscles--or the robot equivalent, pulley-like contraptions--of any robot base...

Season's regards from an icy meadow in the Arctic, but it's no winter wonderland and please don't dash out into it

Watch how a double-pronged trick helps mosquitoes remain healthy while carrying disease, a process that could be exploited to eliminate malaria

A new class of drugs that changes the way neurons interact in the brain can rapidly lift people out of depression

A Norwegian company is breaking with convention and switching to an alternative energy it hopes will be safer, cleaner and more efficient. But this isn’t about ditching fossil fuels, but rather about making the sw...

Does it seem believable that the wars of the future will be fought entirely with robots while humans are safely miles away, monitoring and controlling? The US military is certainly making a case for such a scenario. The ...

Two $3,000,000 special Fundamental Physics Prizes have been awarded to Stephen Hawking and to seven scientists who led the effort to discover a Higgs-like particle at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The winner of the 2013 ...

The remains of a small-statured hominid may be a new, hobbitlike, species called Homo floresiensis.

If language evolved for communication, how come most people can't understand what most other people are saying? (full text available to subscribers)

A dose of rock music proves that a drone's reconnaisance data can be sent via reflected laser beam instead of radio

Soon we'll be able to engineer living things with mechanical precision, says Tom Knight, father of synthetic biology