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Welcome to Brooklyn, where you can live in a giant condo with a hole in it. On the Brooklyn side of the East River next to the Williamsburg Bridge there lies a giant, abandoned building, emblazoned with giant yellow lett...

Brown University researchers invented a small, rechargeable implant that can let subjects move freely. Brain-computer interfaces that can translate thoughts into actions will change how stroke patients, paraplegics and o...

Our established picture of the universe is supremely successful – maybe because most of it is completely made up, says Stephen Battersby (full text available to subscribers)

Never get lost in your own metabolic processes again! An international team of researchers has debuted what they're calling a "Google map" of the human metabolism -- the most expansive virtual model of human metabolism t...

Juice your Kindle during a day in the park. Could this be a window to eeeenfinite power? Maybe not quite, but it could be a cool way to extend the lifetime of your smartphone, tablet or e-reader. A startup called Ubiquit...

All bears have a heavy build but they are very efficient at climbing and swimming.

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But not without taking some criticism. Denmark starchitect Bjarke Ingels has always designed eye-popping structures, but his plan for a combination ski slope/garbage burner/energy plant sounded especially zany when it wa...

A montage of scribbly cartoon faces, each imbued with distinct personality, would make any parent proud of their child's artistic creation...except a child didn't produce these faces; a computer algorithm did. Meet the r...

Ill health related to alcohol, drugs and dementia have set the UK back in a comparison of disease trends throughout Europe

While ambitious private space outfits like SpaceX and Planetary Resources grab headlines, a quieter grassroots transformation is underway. To that end, Infinity Aerospace recently launched their first creation, ArduLab, ...

The full causes of a delayed cargo run to the space station may never be revealed due to anti-arms-trafficking rules that treat spacecraft as weapons

We're discovering many females can make babies without any male help. So why do animals bother with the messy business of sex at all? (full text available to subscribers)

International school Excellence in Detectors and Instrumentation Technologies 2013 (EDIT 2013) will be held March 12-22 at KEK, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, in Tsukuba, Japan. The EDIT is a school f...

The Mars rover Curiosity is back out of safe mode after a computer glitch, according to NASA. The rover is still using its backup computer, but it resumed using its high-gain antenna to communicate with Earth. The rover ...

Fresh from the distant Oort cloud, comet Pan-STARRS will be visible to unaided eyes throughout March and then won't be seen again for at least 110,000 years

Nah, just clumsy--and that's an asset! This little drone only seems dumb. While its nimble brethren navigate corridors and zip in and out of windows, the Swiss-designed AirBurr crashes into just about everything, like an...

Billionaire internet investor Yuri Milner says he launched his $3 million science prizes to create heroes for the next generation

A new satellite map of the oceans' salt content reveals vast expanses of unusually salty water in the Atlantic

A thoughtful exhibition at London's Natural History Museum explores the benefits of extinction, and the possibility of humanity eradicating itself

Create your own indoor rainstorm

The recent creative flowering of theoretical physics is about to butt up against cold, hard reality. Bring it on