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Fire up the pressure cooker and emulsify the cheese: it's almost game time! Johnny Zhu from the Modernist Cuisine kitchen shares a seasonal recipe. The layers are: pressure-cooked pork carnitas; pressure-cooked refried b...

Further research has been halted after the robot's head was ripped off by angry birds. Male sparrows do indeed get angry, especially when another male is intruding on his territory. Angry birds can fight to the death in ...

Functional MRI could reveal which dogs are best suited to a life of military service. It's hard enough to find good people for a given job. Harder still: finding the right dog. The U.S. military employs and deploys canin...

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: solar power at night, Iran's space monkey, Australia's extreme weather, and more

"We have never had a fire in any production battery pack," CEO Elon Musk says. Battery woes may have grounded Boeing's much-hyped 787 Dreamliner jets for now, but it's not necessarily the power supply's fault. Lithium io...

What if you could charge your phone, tablet, or laptop in 30 seconds and have it work all day long? That's the promise presented in a short film titled The Super Supercapacitor that profiles the work of UCLA inorganic ch...

For Twitter sentiment to be a useful barometer, you needn't require Tweeters be professional investors. But you do need them to actually care enough about stocks, commodities, or currency trading to Tweet key words about...

One of the dangers of virtual demand. Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving the real world. When we translate material things, from genes to jet planes, into numbers, we can analyze and manipulate them far more...

Shrinking enlarged prostates by blocking a potent growth factor could avoid problems - such as erectile dysfunction - that accompany current treatments

Rust may be the scourge of electronics but it could help solar power run all night (full text available to subscribers)

Floods have hit the east coast of Australia before recent bush fires have been put out, giving people a taste of climate change's possible consequences

The 2012 Edge questions asked for great thinkers' favourite explanations. This Explains Everything collects them all into a fascinating read

Only mildly traumatic, mist nets offer an easy and safe way to catch birds for artistic, and ecological, study

A new video from the world's highest-resolution drone-mounted camera is mind-blowingly clear. And terrifying. Curious as to how the Defense Department could be spying on you next? PBS checked in with DARPA about the late...