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Fifteen years ago today, Ted Kaczynski pleaded guilty to being the Unabomber. This is the story of what happened to his final mail bomb. On January 22, 1998, Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty to a 17-year bombing campaig...

The Phoenix program is building a robot that can repurpose dead satellites into new ones in space. DARPA's vision for scavenging and salvaging dead satellites in orbit continues its trudge toward technologic feasibility....

The New York Times ran an article today about restaurants that ban customers from taking photos of their food. Sparked lots of discussion! Our friends over at Popular Photography put up a response post that addresses how...

When robots are cheap, why not build an army of them? A couple of years ago, Harvard's Self Organizing Systems Research Group came up with an idea: make a robot so cheap that it's not cost-prohibitive to buy a hundred, o...

The deadline to apply for the 2013 Graduate Studies Program (GSP) at Singularity University is fast approaching. If you're an entrepreneurial innovator, disruptive technophile, or aspiring futurist, be sure to fill out a...

Spy-blocking goggles take camera-shyness to a new level. Worried about people stalking you on Facebook Graph Search? Soon you may be able to pose for every picture in a privacy visor that would prevent facial recognition...

New photos just tweeted from the International Space Station reveal the abstract beauty waiting in nature

The best ways to prevent gun-related crime have never been properly investigated. It is time for the scientific evidence to trump ideology

Dogs love a bone, but a taste for starchy farm waste may have helped domesticate their wolf-like ancestors at the dawn of the agricultural age

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: reinventing the condom, why mass has a split personality, David Attenborough, and more

A prototype floor that senses your every step and displays interactive video could one day bring strange sights and new possibilities into your home

Dogs love a bone, but a taste for starch may have helped tame their wolf-like ancestors at the dawn of the agricultural age

Three coloured jets of liquid mix to form white. But all the liquid is clear - how come?

Chalk up another victory for gene therapy. A recent clinical trial has shown that gene therapy can be used to extend the lives of children with a rare brain disorder that typically proves fatal in the first few years of ...

On the simplest level, GravityLight converts gravitational energy into light, just like its name promises. That's right, you lift a bag filled with 20 pounds of stuff (sand, earth, whatever) and attach it to a cord. As g...

After federal wildlife officials removed endangered species protections on wolves in the Rocky Mountains, hunters quickly killed them by the hundreds. If California's lone wolf leaves the state, he could meet a similar f...

Some claim that new research shows people can grow out of autism, but it is more likely they simply cope better with it over time

Haulin' freight on the moon. To build and supply a lunar base, astronauts will need heavy-duty space trucks for transporting gear. There's just one problem: no roads. That's why NASA engineers designed the rover they cal...

Unchanged for 150 years, the humble rubber is about to get a serious makeover (full text available to subscribers)

Instead of the iconic sugar maple leaf, Canada's $20, $50 and $100 bills feature a leaf of the highly invasive Norway maple, a native of Europe

Once a wacky idea, commercial asteroid exploration has become a race, with the launch of a second company focused on mining near-Earth space rocks

Watch an animation that explains why the concept of mass is two-faced, causing a conundrum in physics