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"He now praises the iPad." We love Google Now, but we couldn't help but get a laugh out of this glitch reported for Android: ask your phone, "What is a giraffe?" and it'll inexplicably say "he now praises the iPad." But ...

Tell drivers what might happen to them and their car if they continue speeding and they might just slow down

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: beyond absolute zero, malware genomes, the history of toilet paper, Amanda Feilding, and more

Artist Paul Ross sculpts fungus with light, air and his own creative concoctions of chemicals. The result? Fabulous furniture

The end of 2012 was a rocky ending for US lawmakers. While their citizenry was popping corks, they were desperately trying to stave off the "fiscal cliff" and thus spare us at least one pounding headache. Their efforts c...

A new map of dark material in Vesta's craters shows that the huge rocks that formed them brought carbonaceous material along for the ride

Greet the New Year with a hike at the Sibley Volcanic Preserve in the East Bay Regional Park District.

Faced with intense competition from their peers, male Ooencyrtus kuvanae wasps line up a harem of partners ahead of time

Technology that maps the family trees of malware could deter governments from Stuxnet-style attacks

Two statements on climate change will set the record straight--as long as nuanced differences from past reports aren't exaggerated. Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, ...

We need to probe the effects of narcotics and rewrite our drug laws, says Amanda Feilding, who set up her own think tank to do just that (full text available to subscribers)

The wonders of performance-enhancing socks, non-existent food, motionless electrons, and more (full text available to subscribers)

The early Earth should have been icy due to a colder sun, but an atmosphere like that of one of Saturn's moons could have warmed it

Instead of restricting stomach volume with gastric bypass and banding techniques, why not let morbidly obese people eat all they can?

If the medical establishment had got its way, we would still be wiping our behinds on newspaper (full text available to subscribers)

Uncovering the family resemblances between nasty computer bugs could help stop them in their tracks

Brain scans show where the brain stores and categorises more than 1000 words