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Based on the biology of the cockroach, VELOCIRoACH is the fastest robot of its size in the world. The world's fastest legged robot mimics the cheetah. The second fastest? The mighty cockroach. Not to be confused with a c...

A stick-shaped wireless sensor monitors soil nutrients, moisture, and sunlight so amateur gardeners can keep tabs on their flora

Eat anything you want, then remove some of it before it's digested. This is the good news about a recently-patented gadget that sucks food out of the stomach: it could work as a last-ditch effort to get obese people to s...

Watch a flea juggle and walk on a tightrope in an exclusive video, as an entomologist resurrects a classic fairground act

An international glimpse into the future. Away from the glitz and flash of the show floor, the place to get the best glimpse of what's next is at the International Gateway, where Asian manufacturers show off their abilit...

9 January 2013. Berkeley Lab-based Supernova Cosmology Project uses Hubble Space Telescope data to discover the most distant well-measured Type Ia supernova ever found

The combination of CT scanning and 3D printing is taking the discovery and recreation of ancient fossils into the 21st century

One of life's fundamental properties - its ability to make copies of itself - may have originated with bubbles of fat that spontaneously break up (full text available to subscribers)

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: pruney underwater fingers, the end of coffee, win a skull, Sherlock Holmes, and more

Because when it comes to hiding clues, all other locations pale in comparison. If you're looking for worldwide press and Internet attention, there's really only one thing you need: a cat. At least that seems to be the le...

Hubble's deepest views of space show that galaxies sparked the reionisation that made the universe transparent, although many are too faint for it to see

Rather than wait for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to take action, Berkeley, California is attempting to take the lead and proclaim the sky above their city a 'No Drone Zone.'

Jason Silva, a 21st-century version of a beat poet (if that'a real thing), kicked off 2013 with a video titled "A Mind Made For Mating!" that's 90 seconds of pure "tech ftw" goodness. Rattling off connections between hum...

9 January 2013. Berndt Mueller to take the helm advancing the frontiers of the Lab's physics programs UPTON, NY - Nuclear physicist Berndt Mueller has joined the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory...

Transplanting bacteria cultured from healthy human faeces can provide an alternative treatment to faecal transplants for people with chronic infection

The ace detective continues to enthrall us, as two new books, The Scientific Sherlock Holmes by James O'Brien and Mastermind by Maria Konnikova, show

Fireflies have a neat trick for conserving light. Turns out, it could work for LEDs, too. Sometimes, a trick gets pulled off better in nature than it does in a laboratory. That might be the case with new research claimin...

VELOCIRoACH can cover 26 times its body length in 1 second

Headlines say that global warming is at a standstill. Climate sceptics are crowing, but the UK Met Office says the outlook is unchanged. What is going on?

The ban on research involving potentially pandemic mutants of H5N1 bird flu could be lifted within a few weeks

With global warming threatening the future of the world's coffee beans, the hunt is on for ways to keep the caffeine flowing, says Stephanie Pain (full text available to subscribers)

A revised anti-arms trafficking law means Earth-orbiting satellites can now be sold abroad and may lead to a relaxation of rules that hamper space tourism