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To overcome the physical distance between our New York offices and our editor in chief--who lives and works on the West Coast--Popular Science is exploring the cutting edge of telepresence technologies. Earth circa 1993 ...

Extreme storms such as Hurricane Sandy have pushed the U.S. electrical grid to its breaking point. The technology exists to keep the lights on--we just need to implement it. The explosion lit up the Manhattan skyline. A ...

The Iranian Space Agency claims to have launched a rhesus monkey into space on a sub-orbital flight, and returned it safely to Earth

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: quantum smell, fracking from space, touchscreen fingernails, and more

As the French and Malian armies recapture Timbuktu, Islamist rebels have set fire to texts that document when science began in Africa

An experiment showing humans might rely on quantum mechanics to distinguish between odours has reopened a smelly debate

A new report argues that private-sector investment could limit rise in temperature - as long as governments can encourage businesses to step up

A shining cluster of light in this satellite image of the US from space isn't a city - it's the glow from hundreds of flares from rigs in North Dakota

A university-led collaboration to develop social robots has publicly unveiled its work in progress: a robotic one-year-old boy. As reported by Gizmag, the android named Diego-san is larger than a typical one-year-old chi...

Probably. Iranian state television reports that the Islamic Republic has put a monkey into suborbital space and recovered it alive. Iran has successfully launched a monkey into suborbital space-- at least, so says Irania...

Back in December I wrote a blog post asking scientists to comment online more often.

Watch a light beam pull tiny objects using a new technique that attracts certain arrangements of particles

Quests to build a supercomputer simulation of the human brain and unlock graphene's potential have each won a potential €1 billion in research funding

In Heart of Darkness, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton add new stars to the constellation of astronomy to tell the subject's full history

The US president could be poised to approve the doubling of imports of tar sands oil, one of the filthiest fuels on Earth, says Fred Pearce