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This brand-new national park will be the closest one to the Bay Area. Let's get to know it.

Locata's technology goes where GPS can't, delivering a signal one million times stronger than those beamed from satellites. Indoor navigation is most certainly the holy grail for positioning system makers right now. Sate...

Bought by a collector for what turned out to be a bargain price, the water-laden space rock holds clues to the ancient Martian surface

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: gastrophysics, polar research tech, 50 words for snow, cannibal insect sex, and more

Mid-2012, Leap Motion unveiled the most accurate motion sensing technology on the market to date. The Leap detects every subtle finger flick and hand gesture with up to 1/100th of a millimeter precision and then translat...

The first legal agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ended last week, but tragically it could have resulted in higher emissions

Male lynxes in northern Sweden are so desperate for territories, they are willing to fight to the death to get them

New techniques will circumvent ethical concerns, and maybe lead us to the medical holy grail. Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be...

A ground-based system that uses much stronger signals than GPS can pinpoint your location in cities and indoors

Watch a pair of insects engage in an antisocial dating game

Three researchers sacked for failing to tell parents of children in a trial that the rice they were eating was genetically modified

Relive great moments in science on the exact patch of Earth where they took place

Network theorists say they can they tease out titillating taste combos - now New Scientist's daring recipes have put them to the test. Find out what happened (full text available to subscribers)

Drug prescriptions for psychiatric conditions will rise in 2013. But don't blame modern living, it's all to do with a revision of psychiatric diagnosis