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Gifts that ensure you will be invited over for an elaborate dinner Do you have a friend whose kitchen aspires to be a laboratory, who weighs every ingredient to the milligram, who can name half a dozen culinary hydrocoll...

Crayfish are vulnerable to the same chytrid fungus already killing frogs all over the world. The discovery provides a clue to how the disease spreads

More bad news for North Korea on the first anniversary of dearly departed leader Kim Jong-il’s death: the satellite it launched into orbit last week is not only tumbling out of control, but is also likely complete...

University of Pittsburgh researchers have allowed a paralyzed woman to pick up and reorient objects--and even feed herself--by controlling a robotic arm with her thoughts. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have...

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Last week's leak of an early draft of a major report on climate change gives us an insight into what we can expect when the final version is published in nine months' time

So much is less important, obviously. But these things especially. The people have spoken. A White House petition to begin construction of a Death Star by 2016 has reached the 25,000-signature threshold, meaning the Whit...

In six dimensions a black hole may behave like a piezoelectric material, a finding that may help model primordial matter called quark-gluon plasma

The futurist and inventor famous for his predictions on the technological singularity will be Google's new chief of turning the theoretical future into consumer products. The singularity is nearer. Or, if you take the vi...

Your choice for the most important invention of the last 25 years Graphic by Katie Peek Our five-round bracket is done, and the people have spoken. The most important invention of the last 25 years? The Human Genome Proj...

Headed to Tennessee a decade from now? If you’re a Hubber, you might consider demoting Graceland. Star Wars geek extraordinaire, Chris Lee, is building a full scale replica of the Millennium Falcon an hour outside...

Europe certainly believes in the promise of stem cells. A joint public-private collaboration between the European Union and Europe’s pharmaceutical industry, called the StemBANCC project, will spend nearly 50 mill...

Geneva, 17 December 2012. This morning CERN[1] completed the first LHC proton run. The remarkable first three-year run of the world's most powerful particle accelerator was crowned by a new performance milestone. The spa...

Having made the most detailed survey of lunar gravity yet, the Ebb and Flow craft will crash into the moon today to reveal details of its thin atmosphere

You would be forgiven for thinking that this "spreading pancake" of a city is the dream-limbo city featured in the movie Inception

The electrical hum in the background of a call can identify precisely when it happened. Metropolitan police in London have been recording the hum of the nation's electrical grid for the last seven years, the BBC reports....

When it comes to your moods, decisions and behaviour, the brain in your head is not the only one doing the thinking (full text available to subscribers)

A 400-kilometre river of liquid hydrocarbons may trace a fault line, hinting at ongoing geological activity on the frigid moon

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Blocking single blood vessels in the brain can cause widespread tissue damage and impair cognitive function

When radiation from the world's most powerful particle accelerator turns hapless scientists into the living dead, the result is an impressive debut horror flick

Thousands of people die from adverse effects of medicines that have been tested on animals. There is a better way, say Kathy Archibald and Robert Coleman