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Once seen as the future of surveillance, the Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle has been terminated, InsideDefense.com reports. Is the military airship revival drawing to a close? InsideDefense is reporting that t...

The new retinal prosthesis, called Argus II, can restore partial sight to people blinded by a degenerative eye disease. This morning, I was speaking with Brian Mech, the vice-president of the medical device company Secon...

Willow Garage, the robotics startup that brought us PR2 and the Robot Operating System (ROS) open source software library will soon cease to exist - at least as a stand alone entity. They issued this statement on their b...

Don't be surprised, be delighted if your current or future romantic partner treats you to a day straight up on the rocks.

Detection of the uncertainty principle in a drum the width of a sand grain vindicates quantum theory but could complicate the hunt for gravitational waves

The origin of high-energy cosmic rays that hit Earth's atmosphere has been a mystery for a century - now it seems supernovae are the culprit

Fears a new respiratory virus identified last year in the Middle East could cause a pandemic are unfounded. The virus isn't showing signs of it - yet

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: the upside of anger, what we really know about courtship, runaway stars, mosh pit physics, and more

A new medal for drone pilots raises questions about heroism and how combat is experienced. Yesterday the Pentagon announced the first new combat related medal that can be won without being physically present in a battlef...

In 2008, an endangered loggerhead turtle, was rescued by a fisherman in Japan after getting tangled in fishing nets. It looked as though the turtle, the rescuers named Yu Chan, had been attacked by a shark - she'd lost m...

Each day is Valentine's Day for owl monkeys - these paragons of monogamy can count the rewards of fidelity in the number of their offspring

We think of it as a negative emotion, but used in the right way anger can improve your health, job prospects, relationships - and whole societies (full text available to subscribers)

Getting over a lost lover just gets harder when when you have a digital record of your relationship distributed all over the internet

Replacing missing gut bacteria in a mouse model of autism improved repetitive behaviour and immune system problems

Take a closer look at chocolatey treats

Geneva, 14 February 2013 - At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN[1] Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, bringing the machine's first three-year running period to a successful conclusion. Th...

An analysis of rock fans dancing reveals how people in a crowd move when emotions are running high, and may help us make buildings easier to evacuate

The biggest known pseudoprime was discovered using an algorithm that could help keep online transactions secure

Understanding why a tiny state that struggles to feed its people wants a nuclear bomb might help head off further bomb development

Enjoy what two insightful books have to say about mating intelligence and relationships - but don't park your scepticism just yet

A revolutionary new computer based on the apparent chaos of nature can reprogram itself if it finds a fault

Forget food taboos and veterinary drugs, what really matters here is how we produce meat - and what meat we're prepared to eat