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Half meteorite, half Earth rock, these geological oddities may be part of a new strewnfield in the northern Bay Area.

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“We are still at the 'horseless carriage stage of this technology,” Peter Singer says in a new Brookings Institute piece on robotics. Singer, director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and a senior fello...

You can almost hear the crash of ice on water in this stunning image of an ice sheet calving off the Chenega glacier in Alaska

The most comprehensive disease report ever produced confirms that, for the first time, there is a larger health problem from people eating too much than too little

Strange markings on the walls of a cave in Australia's vast Nullarbor Plain could have been a tactile code for ancient Aboriginal flint miners

The rogue nation reached space on Monday, but its orbiting 'space vehicle' is now hurtling uncontrolled and poses a threat to other satellites. Here’s something troubling to start your afternoon: North Korea launc...

Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, has had a side project for over 10 years. He’s created a computer system that can write books about specific subjects in about 20 minutes. The pa...

Six months on from its announcement, the mass and decay rates of the particle thought to be the Higgs boson are proving hard to pin down

Give your dog the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education it deserves with these toys.

High-powered lasers that can drill through igneous rocks may make reaching oil and geothermal sources much easier

Nearly as many dogs live in U.S. homes as kids, and they're smarter than you think (the dogs, that is). Give them the STEM education they deserve with this holiday gift guide. Popular Science teems with nerds who loves d...

Sophisticated, affordable drones could soon be so commonplace that they will become our personal servants, says Michael Brooks (full text available to subscribers)

Tech investor Dmitri Grishin explains why the time is right for sleek, versatile robots that will be our everyday helpers rather than factory equipment

A microbe that survives deep below Earth's surface without the sun's energy has reappeared, in California

Tech investor Dmitri Grishin explains why the time is right for sleek, versatile robots that will be our everyday helpers rather than factory equipment

The complex question of whether to risk contact with ET may be navigable with a new spin on the "prisoner's dilemma"

The first company dedicated to investing in consumer robotics stakes $250,000 on robot apps

It's not Pandora, but the Mariana trench holds life just as strange as that in James Cameron's film Avatar

North Korea's entrance into the small group of spacefaring nations is certainly significant. But the idea that it is nearing an intercontinental nuclear capability is overblown. Late yesterday, North Korea joined the spa...