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Would suggest running, but it's already too late, probably. Last year, the Ukrainian Navy decided to reinstitute a Soviet-era dolphin training program. Specifically, according to reports, the dolphins had pistols and kni...

The biggest, smallest, and most robotic stargazing tools. When China completes its newest telescope project in 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), it will have a dish nearly half the s...

The next 30 years of observations will revolutionize astronomy. NEAR SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, CHILE -- A massive new telescope that will unveil the faintest, most distant objects in our universe is officially inaugurated to...

Architects design buildings for rebuilding after the apocalypse, terraforming Mars, and more. Click to enter the gallery eVolo Magazine, an architecture and design journal with a futuristic bent, has announced the winner...

Seals and sea lions are semiaquatic mammals with flippers for feet. There are more than 30 species and they live all over the world.

There is still time to ward off medical disaster – but we need to think two steps ahead, not one

All the latest on newscientist.com, including: where supermassive black holes came from, Pi day, Mars water, lucky hammerheads, Frankenstein, and more

The novel D-Wave computer seems to operate using quantum entanglement, and big firms are already getting behind the project

What kind of porn are New Yorkers searching for? How about Nigerians? Palestinians? Portuguese? PornMD, which, despite its distinguished-sounding name is actually a porn search engine in PornHub's popular network of porn...

ALMA, the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world, officially opens today high in the Chilean Andes

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is officially introduced today in Chile, and PopSci is high in the Andes with the details. SANTIAGO, Chile -- Wearing a rainbow skirt, silver face paint and a pair of meta...

Even in the furthest recesses of cosmic time we see supermassive black holes gorging on gas. But they shouldn't be there, says Stephen Battersby (full text available to subscribers)

These robotic window washers are not afraid of heights, high winds, or hard-to-reach places. Gekko Façade and its sister, solar panel cleaning robot Gekko Solar, imitate their lizard namesake by clinging to high place...

Another video has been released profiling Nigel Ackland showing off some of the cool things he can do with his bebionic3 prosthetic arm, part of a series of videos from manufacturer RSLSteeper. This round, Nigel responds...

It's good news for sharks but bad news for polar bears: three hammerhead species will get greater protection, but the rules of the polar bear trade won't be tightened

At this year's CITES meeting, some animals had their trade banned, some are doing so well their protection level was decreased, and some are gone forever

A judge has permitted the use of "truth" drugs to evaluate the mental state of James Holmes, accused of killing 12 people in Colorado last year

What that looks like is open to debate. Communicating in space is still pretty rough, and our current information-transferring system is aging quick. There must be a better system, and NASA is open to suggestions. The sp...

With a decade of war winding down, post-traumatic stress disorder is an increasingly urgent problem. Will the Army's efforts work? The roar of the chopper’s engines made it hard to hear. First Sgt. James Kelley si...

In The Lady and Her Monsters, Roseanne Montillo explores the often macabre historical backdrop to Mary Shelley's famous tale

We devise so many new materials nowadays that it is hard to know which one would define our times

An online experiment involving thousands of people dropping needles is set to calculate the beloved mathematical constant