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Another "green" brick, this time made like sausage We don't want to be unkind, because it's nice that people are working toward a future where we won't have to rely on traditional brick-making methods, which produce tons...

Poison, dye, and GPS chips. Poachers, you've been warned: these are not the horns you want. In South Africa, conservationists have had to come up with new and more innovative ways to prevent poachers from killing the loc...

The rare meteorite that fell in the Sierra foothills this spring yielded a rich harvest of scientific data.

When bats first took to the air, something changed in their DNA which may have triggered their incredible immunity to viruses

A photon-based version of a 19th-century mechanical device could bring quantum computers a step closer

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: curing congenital diseases in the womb, cosmic inflation in 2013, software to stop market crashes, and more

For really big print jobs, you need a really big 3-D printer. One of the principal limitations for most commercially available 3-D printers is their small print areas, followed closely by the fact that you can generally ...

In the wake of last week's massacre at a school in Connecticut, it is time to look to the data for what works in reducing gun violence, says Peter Aldhous

A naturalist trekking in Peru has spotted a spider that builds a huge decoy doppelganger out of leaves and dead insects

Melted bacon and toast with QR codes burned into it are just two ideas for how laser cutters could change the way we cook and eat

The Chinese government is rapidly building a bigger, more sophisticated military. Here’s what they have, what they want, and what it means for the U.S. In a single generation, China has transformed itself from a l...

From turtles that pee from their mouths to bone-dissolving zombie worms, the animal kingdom can be downright disturbing

Imagine curing inherited conditions before they even arise. We have the gene and stem-cell therapies to do it now – if only we dare use them on unborn babies (full text available to subscribers)

New Scientist's pick of books published this year that you should not miss

Results from the Planck satellite will further our grasp of the driving force behind the early universe's blisteringly fast expansion

20 December 2012. Pier Oddone, the Chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced yesterday the membership of the new Linear Collider Board (LCB), which as a sub-panel of ICFA will promote ...

Emergency "circuit breaker" software might prevent sudden swings in financial markets caused by high-speed trading algorithms

Suitability for punching may have driven our hands to evolve differently from those of other primates

General Motors reprograms robots to put a toy car in a wrapped box. Unionize, elves, before it's too late! Sure, the elves in this video look happy, but are they secretly worried about job security? They should be. GM re...