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US copyright holders like the RIAA and MPAA have a new weapon to battle piracy.

This side trip takes you into the quiet range of hills that runs along the freeway south of Coalinga.

A crowd-funded 3-D printing project seeks to make a "some assembly required" gun part. Enthusiasts of gun-law loopholes, this might be your new favorite workaround. A project at the crowd-funding site Rockethub wants to ...

A band of high-speed charged particles formed within the Van Allen radiation belts last September - knowing why could help protect spacecraft

The ICP1 virus has stolen the immune system from the bacterium it targets, and is now using the weapon against its host

Hide from them, shoot them down or just have them banned? Privacy fears are sparking widespread rejection of civilian drones by the US public

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Gazelles are a major food source for predators and rely on their speed to escape.

Powerful simulations are allowing us to get ever closer to creating a digital human that can be used to monitor our health. But how much do we want to know? (full text available to subscribers)

You're so vain, you probably think your self is about you, says Michael Bond. The truth is slightly more complicated (full text available to subscribers)

Amazing detail in fossils from a new motherlode in China has revealed the earliest known feeding limbs and the oldest nervous system beyond the head

Throughout history, war and innovation have gone hand in hand, whether it's breakthroughs out of heavily funded R&D programs or makeshift contraptions thrown together with spare parts. Soldiers are trained to use the tec...

Hointer is a startup selling men's designer jeans that launched in Seattle last November and offering customers a 21st century shopping experience. The store has no salespeople, confusing signs, or stacks of clothes to r...

Is your dog aware of physics? See how to test your pet's abilities in a series of science-based games

The Leap gesture sensor has taken gadget reviewers by storm - the addition of an app store called AirSpace to its armoury should help it no end

Brain implants have allowed rats to share information with each other through thought alone

The SpaceX Dragon capsule's mission to the space station includes a clever mouse cell experiment that investigates how years of space flight affects humans

Private firms, research labs and governments hope to see companies mining and selling goods entirely in space within the next few decades (full text available to subscribers)

Physics can help you master this move

If one simple mutation allows bacteria to resist antibiotics they've never met, diseases like TB could become untreatable once again

Seventeen years since retiring its last tank capable of air drop, the U.S. Army is in the early stages of developing a new one. Armored vehicles are incredibly useful in battle. But they are difficult to transport to rem...