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The NFL has announced it will partner with General Electric to develop better technology for detecting concussions and protecting the brain, The New York Times reports. The four-year initiative, with $50 million in fundi...

Amazon to launch new virtual currency in May for Kindle Fire users. Amazon mostly soaks up cash for real world stuff, but as they move further into the Kindle and Android worlds, the company is getting more and more digi...

Super-TIGER, a heavy-lift balloon, collected so much data in its flight above Antarctica that it will take scientists two years to sort it all out. Floating 127,000 feet above frozen Antarctica, a weather balloon spent a...

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A new generation of lenses could bring us better lighting, anti-forgery technology and novel movie projectors (full text available to subscribers)

Americans who were born in the wake of the second world war have poorer health than the previous generation at the same age

A distributed computing project called GIMPS has found a record-breaking prime number, the first for four years

Microchimerism results when cells from two genetically distinct populations appear in the same tissue, organ, or individual, such as occurs during an organ transplant or during pregnancy. It has been known for some time ...

A Mars orbiter and an exoplanet photographer are among proposals being presented today for how to use two second-hand spy satellites that NASA's been given

The big US newspapers and Twitter all revealed last week that they were hacked - and many were quick to blame China. But where's the proof?

The big US newspapers and Twitter all revealed last week that they were hacked - and many were quick to blame China. But where's the proof?

They hope to create 3-D tissues and organs using stem cells as the "ink." 3-D printers can produce gun parts, aircraft wings, food and a lot more, but this new 3-D printed product may be the craziest thing yet: human emb...

Steven Chu laid the groundwork for government-backed renewable energy projects - his successor must make a better case for them and counter the sceptics

We are beginning to understand how our brains shape these fabulous nightly adventures, and why they are so bizarre (full text available to subscribers)

This super-accurate timekeeper is an optical atomic clock and its tick is governed by a single ion of the element strontium

Despite the fierce conflicts experienced living among anthropologists, science steals the show in Napoleon Chagnon's autobiography Noble Savages

Make your own non-Newtonian fluid in this demo

Science may lean to the left, but that's no reason to give progressives who reject it a "free pass"

When a failure occurs along a line now, everything downstream from that point loses power. But there's a better way. HOME 1) Generate Power Home solar systems can save money and reduce demand on power plants. But if they...

The 650 muscles in the human body control movement and help to maintain posture, circulate blood and move substances throughout the body.

Printing blobs of human embryonic stem cells could allow us to grow organs without scaffolds

PepsiCo makes Quaker Oats, Nestle makes Hot Pockets, and 58 other other company-brand relationships. Nestle is famous for its candy, but did you know it's also the creator of the fine line of Hot Pockets-brand foods? Or,...