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It was a huge year for 3-D printing technology, which touched everything from sports to chemistry to firearms. Advances in 3-D fabrication enabled some amazing feats of design and ingenuity this year: on-demand running s...

The spiky space balls are nicknamed "hedgehogs," though they'll act more like acrobats, leaping and tumbling across the surface of moons and asteroids. NASA’s past few Mars rovers have been friendly robots with he...

When 23andMe offered their DNA test for just $99, I started to think about giving it for Christmas presents.

Forget its reputation as a parasitic tree killer, mistletoe is an unsung hero of the woods, says Stephanie Pain (full text available to subscribers)

The Higgs boson showed up but that's not all – 2012 saw good news for Schrödinger's cat, a ruling on pi's copyrightability and much more

Can we beat the unholy alliance between human gait and the physics of drinks containers and kill our spills, asks Bob Holmes (full text available to subscribers)

Around September Curiosity will arrive at the base of a mountain that offers the best chances of finding signs of habitability on the Red Planet