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Legends about flying serpents are worldwide, but are dragon tales based in fact?

Depressingly, Mother Jones already created a map of mass shootings in America the last time we had one, so it was all ready to go when news of this morning's shooting in a Connecticut elementary school broke. By their ta...

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: rethinking allergies, the end of race history, leaked IPC report, mysterious star deaths, and more

Watch an ultra-realistic 3D reconstruction that lets you experience Paris through the ages

A technique borrowed from quantum cryptography could make it impossible to spoof military and police radar systems

A lot of them! And that's just if you know how to stack them for optimal use. Today, the always-great web-comic XKCD gets Wile E. Coyote on everyone by explaining how many model rockets you'd need to shoot a rocket into ...

Geneva, 14 December 2012. The United Nations General Assembly in New York today adopted a resolution granting CERN[1] observer status. This status gives the Organization the right to participate in the work of the Genera...

Despite claims to the contrary, a leaked draft of next year's IPCC report on climate does not let us off the hook by blaming warming on the sun

Just in time for the imminent event of Solar Maximum, Chabot Space & Science Center is opening a new solar exhibition that features the latest in stunning ultraviolet satellite imagery from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observat...

Vote on the final matchup in our Best of What's New bracket! Graphic by Katie Peek Welcome to the final round of our bout! There was no shortage of impassioned debate when we gathered to anoint the top 25 innovations in ...

A medical journal has published a paper urging clinicians to learn the ins and outs of human spaceflight so they'll be ready to clear patients for blastoff, as space tourism options proliferate. In a sign of the times in...

DARPA's plan to recycle the orbiting satellite graveyard Approximately 1,300 nonfunctional satellites sit in a graveyard orbit 22,000 miles above Earth—and Darpa has plans for them. Recycling dead satellite parts ...

Air traffic controllers will know exactly where planes are and could direct them to fly closer together along the best flight paths

A star that appeared to explode this year might actually have merged with another massive star – shedding light on the chemical make-up of the universe

The palaeontological love of poo, healthscare insurance, a fat-free cream conundrum, and more (full text available to subscribers)

An artificially intelligent video game designer, Angelina, has built a new festive game by adopting bits of existing games and tweaking its own early attempts

Two books illuminate how ideas of a post-racial world conflict with ongoing use of race in science, says Osagie K. Obasogie

A head-up screen and a touchpad allow drivers to flick controls without having to look down at the dashboard or satnav

Was it a volcano? Was it a meterorite? No, a humble microbe wiped out 90 per ent of Earth's species 251 million years ago