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The MIT homepage was replaced with a message paying tribute to the internet activist, who committed suicide earlier this month

Swipe between iPhones to create a bigger iPhone made of regular iPhones! Today in the "cool iPhone apps you'll download and then show to your friends once but never actually use, not really" file is Mosaic, a very cool l...

Hurricanes unburied the ship's remains, so NOAA and partners decided to make a sonar map before the sand consumes it again. One hundred and fifty years ago last week, the ironsided Union battleship USS Hatteras was embro...

Concept Smoke Security wants to use technology developed to protect bank vaults as a school safety device. While the debate over how to stop gun violence rages on, some business are trying to step up and take gun safety ...

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: why we must sacrifice Einstein, why we shouldn't obsess about a theory of everything, botox, Davos, and more

Clays and carbonates found in a Martian crater might be deposits from groundwater that could have nourished life long after the planet's surface dried up

High levels of carbon-14 in two Japanese cedars may be one of the first signs of a nearby gamma-ray burst

One hundred and fifty years after it went down in battle, the bones of the USS Hatteras have been scanned on the seabed

No longer will they say, "He's going to end up flipping burgers." Because now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs. Alpha machine from Momentum Machines cooks up a tasty burger with all the fixins. And it ...

Some 3000 top corporate and political bosses are meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos to hear about the threats we all face

An all-in-one robotic fabricator can mill, drill and assemble the pieces created by a 3D printer

Our hopes of finding a theory of everything depend on upsetting a balance that Einstein cherished, says Stuart Clark (full text available to subscribers)

140 countries have agreed a deal to cut mercury pollution, but it will be a long slow process getting the toxic metal out of the environment

We shouldn't be obsessed with finding a theory of everything, says Lisa Randall, one of the world's most prominent theoretical physicists