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As regulators look at how to allow drones into American airspace, their concerns now will shape our skies tomorrow. "One of my constituents built a 9-foot flying wing and sends me pictures of my house when he flies over,...

Duck! Here comes asteroid 2012 DA14, grazing close to where you live on February 15th!

Columbia University helped grad student Marshall Cox turn a dorm room hack into a commercializable system that could slash carbon emissions by more than 6 million tons a year. In 2011, Marshall Cox was living in a univer...

For the first time in the Sierra Club's 120-year history, its national head was arrested for an act of civil disobedience. It signals a new, more aggressive stance for the organization spawned by John Muir.

An analysis of tweets from the UK riots of 2011 compares how police in different cities varied in their approaches to communicating with the public

Tongueduino's electrodes send signals from sensors to the tongue, allowing taste buds to "read" information such as the orientation of Earth's magnetic field

As the meteorite landing in Russia today showed, space rocks can be destructive - but they also tell us about a lot about our solar system

The near-Earth fly-by of the huge space rock 2012 DA14 could reveal an asteroid quake in action

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An exoplanet being roasted away by its star may be the smallest yet seen and could offer a glimpse of what really lies inside rocky worlds like ours

Congratulations - it's a black hole. The massive newborn is cradled in a colourful supernova remnant, and could be the youngest black hole in the Milky Way

A woman's diet during pregnancy could determine whether or not her child will have autism, a new study suggests. Women who took supplements of folic acid, a vitamin B variant and found in leafy green vegetables, peas, nu...

Help the Bay Area be better represented in this year's Great Backyard Bird Count!

Engineering advances have architects striving for the mile-high skyscraper. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Bill Baker, a structural engineer with the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), was at hi...

Studying the remains and flight path of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk will provide vital clues to help us prepare for similar incidents

The Royal Shakespeare Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo underscores present-day struggles between knowledge and faith

Identity thieves sneaking a peek at your password will be foiled when there's a blizzard of pointers on the screen

Despondent cells, Möbius baking trays, frozen air, and more (full text available to subscribers)

Ground-up comets sprinkled over Europa may have seeded the moon's under-ice ocean with carbon-based compounds

We often suppress our angry impulses because we expect outbursts to put others off, rather than rally them to our cause. Is there another way?