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Except it doesn't just jump, it explodes. Harvard researchers have developed a robot that jumps into the air using explosions in its legs.The three-legged soft robot has tubes that are filled with methane and oxygen. Whe...

A swarm of helicopter drones are being deployed to British soldiers in Afghanistan thanks to the UK's Ministry of Defence. Dubbed the PD-100 "Black Hornet" Personal Reconnaissance System, the Norwegian-developed drones a...

Soil microbes break down organic matter in permafrost more rapidly when exposed to ultraviolet light, so sunshine could speed up carbon dioxide release

The urinary system - also known as the renal system - produces, stores and eliminates urine, the fluid waste excreted by the kidneys

Robots are gradually starting to move into our workspaces - now they just need to learn how to anticipate our every move

Steady technological improvements and uncertainty over the future of fossil fuels are making wind power truly competitive

The United States draws on a whole arsenal of tools to carry out the targeted killing policy detailed in a recent DOJ memo. Why is everyone zeroing in on drones? Last Monday NBC published a white paper from the Departmen...

11 February 2013 - Last September, hundreds of amateur and professional photographers streamed into particle physics laboratories around the world to produce thousands of photographs of state-of-the-art equipment, labora...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: five mathematical laws that rule the brain, where the Dreamliner went wrong, Picasso, Pluto and more

It'll reach its $11 million goal in no time! This Death Star-funding story just became a trilogy. First, the White House shot down a petition to build a Death Star. Then, a team took to Kickstarter to crowdfund a Death S...

A new X-ray nanoprobe shows that the painter was one of the first to switch to enamel wall paint to create new artistic styles

Technological progress advances our ability to build bigger and badder machines. A recent example is Sea Installer, part of the next generation of powerful wind turbine installation vessels that are capable of moving and...

One of the more popular exhibits at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose is the wetlab. The exhibit is getting a little long in the tooth so I was looking for ways to give it a bit of a refresh.

Tourists' photos can be used to identify a specific whale shark almost as accurately as researchers' photos. Conservationists can track an endangered species by photographing them, but why do that when there are endless ...

Gavin Newsom's Citizenville shows that technology can empower people, but fails to explore deep-rooted problems within the democratic process

An advanced airliner brimming with untried technologies is on the tarmac until further notice. What did anyone expect, asks Paul Marks

The grey squirrel has comprehensively outcompeted the UK's native red squirrels for food and habitat, but some reds are clinging on in Scotland

The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will unify our understanding of the brain