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Coyotes, reviled for preying on sheep and goats, are the most targeted predator in the U.S. This week, hunters in the tiny Modoc County town of Adin will compete in a contest to kill the most coyotes to protect their liv...

There's a great little post on XKCD examining the speeds of data delivery--especially useful given today's confirmation that Saturday USPS delivery is shutting down. It's long been the case that if you need to send someo...

Small, silent, nimble, and staring at enemies What do you get when you cross a Predator drone and a hummingbird? For those times when a Predator is just too big for a backpack, some British troops can now deploy a new pa...

You know those guys at the side of the road, tossing and flipping signs in the air trying to get you to go into that IHOP or get your car washed? Well those guys are now, sometimes, robots.

The latest stories on newscientist.com, including: Solomon earthquake, sleep brain machine, the struggle to clear Beijing's smog, and more

As pollution levels return to normal in China's capital after a record-breaking month of smog, what can be done to banish the smog? (full text available to subscribers)

A good case has been made that a skeleton unearthed from a car park is that of the last Plantagenet king of England - it's time to share the data

A machine that can identify all bacteria, viruses and fungi known to cause disease in humans should speed up diagnosis and help to reduce antibiotic resistance

Because it doesn't feel like an ad--it's a really fun, interactive adventure that fully exploits all the things modern web browsers can do. Yesterday, Google unveiled a "Chrome experiment," a promotion for the new Wizard...

Analysing variations in folk tales using genetic techniques shows that people swap genes more readily than stories, giving clues to how cultures evolve

Wouldn't it be wonderful to pack a good night's sleep into fewer hours? Technology has the answer - and it could treat depression and even extend our lives too (full text available to subscribers)

A habitable exoplanet should be near enough for future telescopes to probe its atmosphere for signs of life

How can lifelogging - wearing a camera round your neck to record your every move - reveal what's healthy and unhealthy in the way we live?

A major earthquake has caused a small tsunami in the Pacific Ocean, killing at least five people

Plans to build new reactors in the UK are stalling as yet another company pulls out, and there is still nowhere to store nuclear waste permanently

An amateur astronomer combined his pictures with images from the Hubble archive to reveal the true nature of galactic oddball M106

Keeping more than 50 scientists warm in style. This is the Halley VI Antarctic research station, and today it officially opens as home to up to 52 (very cold) scientists working as part of the British Antarctic Survey. T...

The University Herbarium at the University of California - Berkeley boasts one of the largest and oldest collections of seaweed in the United States, dating back to the time of the U.S. Civil War. Kathy Ann Miller, a cur...