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Tools of the 21st-century police department Last year was a record low for murders in New York City, with only 414 (eep) counted. Part of the reason for that number? Facebook, apparently. According to the New York Post, ...

But, uh, how do you land? It's 2013, so we've all been wondering: Where's my jetpack? The future won't have truly arrived until we can strap into a backpack and fly ourselves around town. And while that's not exactly her...

Swipe the air to pause. Wave to fly drone. Most gesture-control systems require some kind of external sensors that "see" you, with optical sensors or depth sensors or cameras. They're on the outside, measuring your movem...

A pioneering collaboration between two of London's most prestigious cultural institutions shows that sci-art has come of age

Water Buffalo are a domesticated animal used mainly in Southeast Asia for tilling rice fields and to provide milk.

Your mind's greatest trick is convincing you of your own reality. Discover the elaborate illusions involved and what they mean in our special feature

Hamburg, 25 February 2013 - In the coming days, research institutes around the world will open their doors and invite high school students to become particle physicists for one day. More than 10,000 students will partici...

The new Ground Combat Vehicle weighs twice as much as the tank it's designed to replace, and it's massive enough to survive a roadside bomb. Heavy does not even begin to describe the U.S. Army's new tank. At 84 tons, the...

Jack Andraka is 16 years old, a sophomore in high school, and a pretty endearing chap. Andraka's alter ego? Mad scientist. Last year, Andraka developed a very cheap, accurate diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer using a...

By knocking out a specific group of neurons, scientists were able to prevent mice from feeling cold. The study sheds light on how the nervous system transmits sensory information from the body to the brain and may help d...

Solar Impulse wants to go coast to coast, day and night. brightcove.createExperiences(); Planes usually eat up a lot of fuel, but one team is trying to make a long flight without any fuel at all. Solar Impulse--a solar-p...

Today, scientists will launch two tiny satellites with telescopes on board. Sometimes a bargain satellite is best. Engineers have been making cubesats--cheap cube-satellites that hitch a ride onto rockets and are jettiso...

The Myo band turns electrical activity in the muscles of a user's forearm into gestures for controlling computers and other devices

The Cassini spacecraft captured this beautiful image of Saturn

Treating computer viruses as a biological puzzle could help computer scientists get a better handle on the wide world of malware

Susmita Mohanty, the founder of India's first private space company, Earth2Orbit, wants India to claim bigger piece of the space-launch pie