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A pill can monitor firefighters' vital signs on the job. A new data-delivering pill could help firefighters monitor their reactions to heat stress, a new trial in Australia shows. Heat stress can lead to various problems...

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is replete with cutting-edge technology. But problems with its complex systems now have the planes grounded around the world

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Matt Damon's new movie, first solar-powered vertebrate, Jared Diamond, spiders in bondage, and more

In a December paper published in Nature's preliminary research online publication, Scientific Reports, Stanford researchers announced a fabrication process that makes thin-film solar cell (TFSC) stickers. The resulting T...

Learn the survival secrets of our winter visitors, the yellow-rumped warblers.

MoMA PS1's summer arts instillation will feature a large wall built with cast-offs from the skateboard-making process. Party on, Party Wall. Each year, New York's Museum of Modern Art and its contemporary art affiliate M...

Flying through a virtual forest, hawkmoths tailor their navigation according to visibility conditions

Two big iOS games show what divides the field. Two big games dropped for iOS Wednesday night: Temple Run 2 and Final Fantasy: All The Bravest. On my bus ride to work yesterday morning [Ed note: Colin lives in New Jersey ...

Sensors that monitor individual mussels' behaviour will keep watch on the ebb and flow of pollutants in the Mississippi

A new way of communicating with far-away objects NASA has officially just sent the Mona Lisa to the moon using lasers. That is amazing. How they did that is slightly tricky, so here's some quick background. The Lunar Rec...

The spotted salamander is the first backboned animal known to harness sunlight to make food - with the help of photosynthetic algae

In his new book, the Pulitzer-prizewinning author Jared Diamond looks to tribal societies to see how we used to live, and what we can learn from our past (full text available to subscribers)

Rugby, cancelling cancellation, low, low prices, and more (full text available to subscribers)

Watch how silk can be harvested from an orb spider, using a technique that draws out fibres on a motorised wheel

Could you imagine a government that builds its policies on carefully gathered evidence? In the UK, this is no longer a crazy dream, says Michael Brooks

The wild weather that greeted the new year is a taste of things to come

Turbines built with superconducting innards promise to triple the wind-power generation of conventional turbines - and be lighter to boot

Responsibility for reducing the harmful consumption of alcohol can no longer be left to the industry that produces the stuff

3Dlt, a 3-D printer template marketplace, has launched a firearm-safety design challenge. When it comes to guns, 3-D printing is usually seen as a harbinger of evil, not good. Last year, a plan to build open-source bluep...