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Services from weather monitoring to the health of the nation's poor could be compromised as long-feared government spending cuts sink in

Services from weather monitoring to the health of the nation's poor could be compromised as long-feared government spending cuts sink in

A new White House strategy to counter IEDs takes a surprisingly holistic approach. No enemy weapon has confounded U.S. military planners over the last decade like Improvised Explosive Devices. IEDS have been around in so...

What makes us so sure that mathematics can reveal nature's deepest workings, asks cosmologist Brian Greene (full text available to subscribers)

The greatest LAN ever. The world's largest fiber-optic local network is going behind the walls at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. Replacing copper wires with a fiber-optic network will give the labs the speed...

The White House "agrees" that consumers should be legally allowed to make full use of their phones--but it's still against the law. Where do we go from here? A petition created by Sina Khanifar to make unlocking phones l...

Sloths spend most of their time sleeping and eating in the tropical rainforests of South and Central America.

Corrupted files may be the fault of cosmic radiation. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity paused its work over the weekend and is chilling in safe mode on Mars, while engineers on Earth try to resolve a computer glitch. The rove...

In what is sure to be only the beginning of human vs. robot confrontations, a surveillance robot belonging to the police was recently shot after a six-hour standoff with a 62-year-old heavily inebriated man. A camera-equ...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: crunch time for physics, uses of astronaut faeces, bunnies did for Neanderthals, and more

Particles blown into the air in Africa and Asia cross the Pacific and increase rain and snow in the Sunshine State

A combination of three antiretroviral drugs is said to have eliminated HIV from an infected baby, but the claim is being treated with scepticism

It's like a high-tech, sadistic version of musical chairs. DRM CHAIR from thibault brevet on Vimeo. This is a self-destructing chair, and also happens to be a pretty darn funny political statement. Ever heard of DRM? It'...

Yuri Milner, billionaire Silicon Valley investor, recently joined forces with tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and their wives Anne Wojcicki (founder of 23andMe) and Priscilla Chan to shower riches on a group of ...

LHC experiments to present latest results at Moriond conference -- High school students hunting particles at the Large Hadron Collider -- LHC's D-meson study wraps up antimatter 'flip' story -- Does the UK need to spend ...

The answer is a lot simpler than you'd think. Consider it a case of putting the drone before the driver. As drone use has taken off, human error remains a leading cause of unmanned aerial vehicle crashes. The problem is ...

What we call land-grabbing is often more about access to irrigation. We urgently need to know how much is being purloined, says Fred Pearce

An award-winning photo catches the elusive cassowary, which has the reputation as being the most dangerous bird in the world

Peter Bowler's Darwin Deleted shows that the shock of Darwin's theories may have delayed the acceptance of evolution – and science may have paid the price

One of the Dark Energy Camera's first images