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Grey wolves are an evolutionary success story, giving rise to the domestic dog 10,000 years ago and now rebounding from centuries of persecution

A fitting tribute to the open-information pioneer who took his own life last week. Aaron Swartz was an internet pioneer, a crucial part of the creation of RSS, Reddit, and Creative Commons. He was also, as of this past F...

'Space hotel' company Bigelow lands its first major deal with NASA and a chance to prove the future of human space exploration is inflatable. Bigelow Aerospace has for years been trying to get the world to take its infla...

Spaceship builders will assume the flight risk first with their own test pilot employees. Private companies are already sending cargo into space on their own, but no one is sending any people yet--for now, Americans can ...

Hundreds of researchers have been offering free access to their work in tribute to internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on Friday

Want to be smarter, solve difficult puzzles, learn the piano in half the time? All you need is a little shock. A growing number of scientists are claiming that passing a small current through the brain increases our apti...

Want to bring international expertise to Silicon Valley without the hassle of getting a visa? You may soon get that chance. Tech startup Blueseed wants to open a floating office park for non-US tech entrepreneurs off the...

Shrapnel and bullets can set off huge explosions if they hit weapons stores. But microchip-based detonators could help keep them safe

A new analysis of telescope data has reduced the odds of a potentially catastrophic asteroid impact to less than one in a million, NASA says, effectively ruling it out. Good news from NASA: The asteroid Apophis, long tho...

"This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For" There has been a great disturbance in the internet, as if millions of geeky voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. The White House has denied...

Maybe, if you're really prepared. But it's not going to be an especially smooth flight. A python clinging to the wing of a commercial plane, which soared 30,000 feet in the air, died last week. The brave little guy held ...

Far from being passive hangers-on, symbiotic microbes may shape the evolution of the plants and animals that play host to them (full text available to subscribers)

The White House has politely declined to build a version of the planet-destroying space station from Star Wars but took the opportunity to promote science

Geoscientist Martin Siegert says that drilling through 3 kilometres of ice to reveal the secrets of an entombed lake was never going to be easy

Traditional fans will turn their noses up at e-sports, but they risk missing some compelling action