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Seven of a batch of 10 "natural" remedies for erectile dysfunction actually contain the active chemical ingredient from Viagra

Playing fetch with BigDog just got a whole lot more fun. And destructive. We've described Boston Dynamics' DARPA-funded BigDog robot as a lot of non-canine things over the years. "The offspring of a bull and a spider," a...

Could you use a few thousand hairs? This robot can find them. Artas is the first ever FDA-approved hair transplant robot, designed to accomplish the painstaking, yet technically difficult task of harvesting hundreds to t...

To protect themselves from cosmic rays the couple aboard the proposed Inspiration mission to Mars will line the craft's walls with water, food – and their own faeces

Two X-ray telescopes have teamed up to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy – and it's pushing the cosmic speed limit

The failure of a rainy season, which put thousands of people at risk of starvation, was made more likely by our greenhouse gas emissions

The debate over what Neanderthals ate, and how it may have led to their demise, has turned to rabbits. Which, it is now claimed, they did not feast on

The second commercial cargo flight to the ISS lifted off today – but SpaceX's Dragon capsule had trouble spitting fire once in orbit

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The platypus is one of the most unusual creatures in the animal kingdom. It looks like it was put together from parts of other animals; females lay eggs, and males are venomous.

There are flaws in our intuitive beliefs about what makes us who we are. Who are we really, asks philosopher Jan Westerhoff (full text available to subscribers)

A lens of dark matter might have magnified a supernova, causing it to look up to 20 times brighter than similar explosions

The world's largest wind turbine has rotator blades the size of an Airbus. Last fall in Østerild, Denmark, the German company Siemens built the world’s largest wind turbine. Each of its three rotor blades measu...

Invasive species are here and more are on the way! Find out about the problems and some possible solutions.

Graham Ryland believes that robots belong in the classroom. As the CEO of Barobo, the maker of modular robots called Mobots, he has witnessed firsthand the enthusiasm students get for math and science when they can learn...

A new company with a Harvard psychiatrist as inventor-in-residence says it's got the research to back up its claims. Diego Pizzagalli spent a good chunk of 10 years at Harvard doing what most professors at elite institut...

HideOut, a smartphone projector system, lets users guide animated characters over any surface by using invisible-ink markers

A glimpse at the SpaceX spacecraft before a mission

Acne may be caused by certain strains of a common skin bacterium – raising the prospect of "probiotic" treatments that rebalance skin flora

Danger signs, non-existent products, prime confusion and more (full text available to subscribers)

We need a consensus on regulations surrounding space mining if it's to enrich us all

MIT's image amplification system makes imperceptible movements and color changes visible. Last summer, a group of MIT scientists debuted a new video amplification algorithm that exaggerates slight changes in movement or ...