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San Jose is trying to lead the country in clean tech innovation. So how is the city doing?

Tickets are available now. Sam Bompas and Harry Parr are a breed unto themselves; young British purveyors of culinary spectacle whose most recent book, Feasting, includes recipes for simple dishes like ham covered in gli...

Kranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius. With the exception of Russian novelists, not many people can say their b...

We've got a few contenders now. Who's going to print a house first? We've already covered two plans for a 3-D printed house, and they couldn't be more different. The first is a Mobius-strip-style building without a begin...

All the latest on newscientist.com, including: how to raise the recent dead, unearthing the long dead, HIV "cures", invisible fish, and more

Part of an exhibition of jewelry inspired by space happening at the Forbes Galleries. Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age, an exhibition opening this weekend at the Forbes Galleries, is showing off jewelry, preci...

Pirate perch hide behind a unique chemical camouflage that makes all other animals unable to smell them

A wildly spinning white dwarf star could be doomed to a spectacular end in a few million years' time

Two livers have been successfully transplanted into people after being kept alive in a device that mimics the body

Resuscitation specialist Sam Parnia believes we can bring many more people back to life after they die – it's just a matter of training and equipment (full text available to subscribers)

Swimoid glides underneath you, capturing images of your breaststroke and makes laps less boring

The latest draft fails to mollify opponents to a $23 billion-dollar plan for California’s trickiest water problem: the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Science keeps quiet about luck, but discovery relies on it – and we can generate more by bringing creative ideas from all quarters into the mix

Wild birds, injured on the beach, get a helping hand from dedicated staff and volunteers. Here's the story of one injured water bird.

Does the US need an expensive new drug for smallpox – which was eradicated in 1980? Or could the money be better spent on more immediate dangers?

Scrolling via facial tilt recognition is the latest addition to smartphone functionality, care of Samsung's launch of its Galaxy S 4 phone

A prize for the first person to figure out why a filter affects a banana's colour in different ways

Wind farm paranoia, DNA-free food, to "inthinity" and beyond, and more (full text available to subscribers)

Archaeologists working on London's new Crossrail underground railway have discovered a lost medieval plague burial ground

Information wants to be free. It takes a lot of moving parts to chain it down. This infographic, from the Iran Media Program and the design studio Hyperakt, charts how far up the food chain internet censorship goes in Ir...