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A lakeside view from every angle Sheraton is opening a bucket-load of hotels this year, including 15 in China, and we can only hope they all look as awesome as this one, designed by Beijing-based architect Ma Yansong of ...

Interviewers are likely to lead witnesses astray. It's time for the machines to start asking the questions

More than a year after capturing one of our drones, Iran is still trying to taunt us with it. Video extracted from a CIA spy drone that Iran captured in 2011 has been broadcast on the country's state television -- or tha...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: how faith could save the natural world, online workers unite, interactive map of sea level rise, and more

Watch how a surface can be manipulated to cast images, allowing designers to paint with light

Robots want to invade your home, take your job, and steal your wife. Maybe not that last one (yet). But as unemployment remains stubbornly elevated (7.9%) people are searching for answers. Among the usual suspects--forei...

Phrases like "viral art" or "infectious sculpture" only begin to provide vague impressions of what British artist Luke Jerram has created: human-scale glass sculptures of viruses, bacteria, and other organisms from the m...

Love video games but want the kind of physical and social interactivity that board games deliver? That's the motivation behind the development of Sifteo Cubes, the touchscreen cubes that communicate wirelessly and have s...

Sydney, Tokyo and Buenos Aires are in for some of the biggest sea-level rises by 2100, finds one of the most comprehensive predictions to date

A closer look at a taxidermied dragon has debunked the creationist theory that it proves pterosaurs died out just a few hundred years ago

Dekila Chungyalpa, director of WWF's new Sacred Earth programme, says it's time for religious leaders to start preaching for the environment (full text available to subscribers)

A slow motion video from a high-tech kitchen shows the creation of a form of matter you've probably never seen before. PopSci is pleased to present videos created by ChefSteps, the free-to-learn culinary school started b...

Geology can be heard as well as seen: here's a tour of some sounds that Earth makes.

Wu-chun Feng will be getting $3.5 million over three years for his services. Wu-chun Feng, an associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, is the creator of Green Destiny, a sup...

The Droptag sensor could prevent you having to accept delivery of smashed goods that you've ordered online

Employer reviews, a living wage, and even promotions: crowd-working on sites like Amazon's Mechanical Turk is shaking off its exploitative past

A new exhibition plays with the physics of light to show just how important it is to our perception of the world

"Blackest day" for sport as a new report finds perfomance-enhancing drug use is rife in Australia

Watch a rubbery robot leap into the air thanks to an internal blast of burning gases

On its way to Pluto, New Horizons caught a glimpse of Jupiter's smaller blemish

Technology now lets us manipulate the stages of sleep, potentially giving us a fast track to blissful rest, but we meddle with sleep at our own risk