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Or, how to accessorize in Waziristan. The increasingly vast suite of surveillance tools available to state authorities has certainly given privacy advocates something to bristle at. In an exhibition launching this week, ...

Dragon Empire is a real book about a fictional war with China, which will fund a real laser weapon designed for a real war with China. Call it an instance of science fiction begetting science fiction. Physicist Adam Weig...

Industrialization has its price. This past weekend Beijing, the epicenter of one of the world's fastest growing and largest economies, reached the highest smog levels on record. The World Health Organization standard for...

Space agency's $17.8 million deal with Bigelow Aerospace fulfils a dream from the 1950s for lightweight, inflatable capsules for tourism and research

Trento, Italy, January 16, 2013 - The Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA), the INFN's new centre, in Northern Italy, dedicated to particle physics and the development of cutting-edge technol...

A promising laser treatment, which works in a mysterious way, is shaking up our understanding of a major cause of vision loss in the West (full text available to subscribers)

Complex social behaviour in ants is passed from generation to generation in the same way as sex chromosomes

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A robot fish can spend an indefinite time cruising rivers to sample water quality thanks to its gliding groove

For the last 15 years mystified doctors have been unable to explain the cause for Brooke's disorder that has kept her aging in check.

Watch a unique mollusc demonstrate a flashing light display as it unfurls the edge of its lip

Construction starts this July on a 1-gigawatt wind farm off the coast of Fukushima, as the nation moves another step away from its nuclear dependence

The taller the tree, the smaller its leaves. The explanation for this, it turns out, also sets a limit on how tall trees can grow

Unlimited products are like bosons and restaurant reservations are like fermions. From OpenTable to Amazon to your Netflix queue, algorithms sift through what we seem to like and offer future suggestions tailored to fit ...

The Mars Curiosity rover has discovered rocks shot through with veins of pale minerals, probably created by flowing water. It's time to start drilling

Putting a price on the impact of nature may help us understand its true worth, argues environmentalist Tony Jupiter in What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

Musicians who start before the age of 7 develop better connectivity in the part of the brain involved in the synchronisation of the hands - useful for would-be virtuosos