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A project spanning robotics, computer science, developmental psychology, and machine learning aims to figure out how one-year-olds learn to interact with the world. Anyone who has witnessed the development of a newborn i...

Enjoy a quiet canyon amid the noise, haste and rumpled rocks of the East Bay.

A plastic film that repeatedly curls up and flips over when wet could power devices in remote areas or sensors embedded in sweaty clothing

An artificial ribosome that assembles proteins and peptides could make it much easier to manufacture antibiotics and exotic new materials

Austin-based TrackingPoint shows off its new 'precision guided firearms' that allow the shooter to choose the shot before pulling the trigger. CES isn't usually the venue for checking out the latest in firearm technologi...

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: new dark force, identifying endangered animals via smartphone, sperm dance to calcium's tune, and more

Watch a time-lapse video of beetles devouring a dead macaw to prepare its skeleton for a museum collection

New technologies may one day save us from throwing resources at producing food that no one eats, but we can take measures now to solve the problem

To kick off 2013, South Korean electronics firm LG launched the world's first commercially available 55" OLED (organic light-emitting diode) television. And according to LG, it's "as thin as three credit cards." Which is...

It takes an almost surgical approach to retrieve a plane if it goes underwater. Not only does the team in charge of the recovery need to know every detail of the plane before going in, they also have to "treat every reco...

Faced with a dangerous predator, baby sharks hold their breath and stay still - even before they've been born

Calcium signals helps sperm decide the best movements to bag an egg. The discovery could aid treatments for male infertility

Most climate predictions err on the side of least drama, so extreme projections are often closer to reality

The crowdfunded $10 million baby of the Kickstarter world has, at long last, made good on its promise to ship products to customers

A wealth of new popular science titles arrive in 2013. Here's what we're looking forward to

Everyday mobile tech takes the legwork out of tracking hard-to-find animals, and makes life easier for field biologists

If changing temperatures and rainfall patterns kill off coffee, will that finally spur us into action?

Dark matter behaving oddly in colliding galaxy clusters may be evidence for a fifth fundamental force in the universe