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The urinal video game console delivers ads and promotes engagement with interactive games (five currently including a racing game and trivia) all within the approximate 1-minute window of time it takes for a man to empty...

Unexpected findings from the "crew members" of the Mars 500 experiment may overturn a common assumption about how our body stores and excretes dietary salt

Planets around billions of stars may be getting pummelled by the icy dirt-balls in the same way that the young Earth once was

A record-smashing "dome of heat" is causing the worst fire threat on record and forcing Australian meteorologists to add two colours to their heat maps

NASA's recently launched NuSTAR space telescope peers through the dust that blinds other craft to spot a supernova and two black holes

This fine figure of a robot is Robonaut 2 hard at work aboard the International Space Station last week

If renewable energy is to succeed, we need to find a better way to store it. Liquid air batteries could be the answer, says Jim Giles (full text available to subscribers)

After quitting Apple, the tech guru behind the iPod wanted to revolutionise our homes - starting with the humble thermostat