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This is the first successful production of natural gas from off-shore supplies of methane hydrate, a huge untapped energy resource. Japanese officials report they've produced natural gas from underwater methane hydrate, ...

Curiosity's first sample of drilled Martian rock shows traces of ancient water that would have been fresh enough to support microbes – and perhaps even drink

A successful test drilling sets the scene for commercial energy production that exploits an abundant new power source, says Sara Reardon

There are more than 3,000 species of snakes in the world and there is at least one type of snake on every continent except Antarctica.

Thousands of behavioural health diagnoses were changed by an evaluation board after initial diagnosis by a military physician, an army investigation has revealed

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Synthetic genome pioneer Craig Venter says that his team is close to creating a living bacterium made completely from scratch

New decay data confirms that the unsatisfyingly named "Higgs-like particle" announced at CERN last year really is a Higgs boson

Metals that cry, living concrete and a handcuffed Texan's briefcase: the diversity of the materials we create says a lot about us, finds Richard Fisher (full text available to subscribers)

At the South by Southwest tech/music/film extravaganza in Austin, Texas, Google showed off a few concrete examples of how apps work work on the crazy-futuristic Google Glass project. The New York Times, for example, is b...

The Singularity Hub Membership Program continues to grow as more technology and future enthusiasts come into the fold. One of the perks of membership is gaining access to our community Google Group, where members and SH ...

If there’s one thing we know about Earth’s oceans, it’s that we don’t know terribly much. But robot explorers are helping ocean scientists bridge the gap between known and unknown with more da...

Another nail in the coffin for Facebook privacy: An algorithm can accurately predict your demographic info, political preferences, and more, just by looking at your "likes." Think of all the pages you've "liked" on Faceb...

You've already got a crazy-powerful computer in your pocket. Now put it to use in a 'bot. THE TREND The average smartphone today has as much processing power as a 1970s supercomputer—enough (as luck would have it)...

Teetering untidily on the edge of the Snake river canyon, the Idaho town of Jerome captures the continuing tension between human settlement and nature

After cloning 25 generations from a single mouse, the next step for a Japanese lab is to attempt to make clones from mouse fur, stuffed bodies and excrement

Katrina van Grouw's The Unfeathered Bird is a stunning collection of her drawings, complemented by plenty of ornithological nuggets

These inanimate crystals form colonies under UV-light, like bacteria

With a new rapid-result blood test and a vaccine in the works, leprosy eradication may soon be a reality, says immunologist Malcolm Duthie, who created the test

A technique for snapping the spectra of extrasolar planets detects the molecular clues of all planets in a star system simultaneously