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There is no Bay Area peak more central than San Bruno Mountain, and it's remarkably unspoiled.

Perfect for differential equations, group vocabulary exercises, and stopping a 9mm round at close range. File this under things we're not quite sure how to feel about: A Maryland armor manufacturer has developed a bullet...

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen uses 3-D printing to make out-of-this-world fashion. Dutch designer Iris van Herpen has been known to use technology to push the fashion world into the future--a crazy future full of 3-D pr...

The Dutch fashion designer brought 3-D printing to the runway for Paris Fashion Week.

The most precise experiment yet to find the proton's radius confirms that it can appear smaller than our theories predict - is new physics needed?

A short sharp squash in these channels and a cell's membrane pops open - good news when you want to slip a molecule or nanoparticle in there

Curiosity may get all the kudos these days, but the wizened Opportunity rover continues to log miles on the Martian surface. Today on Mars the robotic rover Opportunity (that's right, Opportunity--remember when we all us...

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: genes from nowhere, snaps from space, open-source car computing, quantum gravity, and more

We must find a way to save the Royal Institution from having to sell its historic London home, says Nobel laureate Harry Kroto

Watch a super-fast robot alter its direction at a variety of angles without slowing down

After a few early-2000s misadventures in Microsoft tablet PCs--the tablet was effectively re-introduced by Apple's iPad in early 2010. And just two years on, global tablet sales are projected to overtake laptop sales. Th...

Andrea Hernandez is a student at John Jay School, a magnet school in Texas whose students were recently required to begin wearing Smart ID badges with radio-frequency identification (RFID) locator chips in them. She is a...

The controversy over whether work on airborne bird flu can be published shows that transparency is vital to upholding public trust

The Pluto-killer is at it again: studies of the small world and its moon may also knock down popular theories of dark matter and dark energy

Growing environmental problems, from climate change to water shortages, could wipe out many pension funds within decades

Mark Thompson's A Down to Earth Guide to the Cosmos does what its title says - it shows how to locate stars in the night sky and explains how they work

What do birds communicate through their complex markings? Fractal mathematics could help us understand what our feathered friends see in each other

What do birds communicate through their complex markings? Fractal mathematics could help us understand what our feathered friends see in each other

OpenXC will set the hacker community loose on Ford's car computer systems - expect a host of apps to improve vehicles' performance and efficiency

As the letters of Alfred Russel Wallace, a co-discoverer of natural selection, are published online, he reveals what he really thought about Darwin