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Zoom around the world's networks with a new 3-D visualization app. Peer 1 Hosting has been trying to explain what the Internet looks like since 2011, when they created an infographic map of the Internet showing networks ...

-- Higgs Boson Discovery Confirmed -- Higgs boson case strengthened by new CERN data analysis -- Obama: Sequester Cuts (at Fermilab) Could Hinder U.S. Economy -- CERN Now Certain It Has Discovered The Higgs Boson -- New ...

All around the site where the rover drilled its first sample, evidence shows the rocks formed in watery conditions. The Mars rover Curiosity's home in Gale Crater may be dry now, but it was definitely wet long, long ago,...

"Danny Boy" from space is just one of many Hadfield highlights. Lots of astronauts living on the International Space Station are prolific tweeters and photographers. But every few missions or so, someone comes along who ...

The coyote is a clever animal that has adapted well to growing human populations and habitat loss.

On Saturday, 3-D printed gunsmith Defense Distributed published on Facebook a photograph of its newly acquired Title 7 Federal Firearms License. The Title 7 license allows Defense Distributed to manufacture and sell ammu...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: secrets of the body, life and gold in the abyss, birds evolve to dodge cars, and more

Cold war dreams of producing nuclear bombs fuelled shocking radiation experiments by US and Soviet governments, reveals Kate Brown's Plutopia

Crazy small, crazy fast, and crazy fun to watch. About a year ago, we reported on a team using “two-photon lithography” to 3-D print a teeny, tiny racecar in about four minutes. That was insanely fast--printi...

A quantum algorithm has been devised that could help work out how prime numbers are distributed, a problem worth $1 million in prize money

"Vehicular selection" seems to be working on US cliff swallows: they have evolved shorter wings that help them take off quickly and dart away from cars

Filmmaker Jason Silva’s latest philosophical short, “The Mirroring Mind,” is a stream of consciousness—about consciousness itself. If you like brain yoga, Silva's your man. He likens the mindâ�...

Five web pioneers, including Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, won the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering today

A new Lockheed Martin project promises to cheaply and easily turn seawater into drinking water. It's surprisingly hard to find safe drinking water on Earth--this on a planet covered in water. A new project by Lockheed Ma...

No, it's not a giant haystack, but a multistorey apartment complex built by sociable weavers – an example of one of the largest structures constructed by birds

A long-running philosophical debate is being rehashed in the world of business, and big money is at stake, says Stephen Ornes

From unruly urges to our neglected nooks and crannies, we reveal the body as you’ve never seen it before

Salamandra robotica II changes the way it moves based on the intensity of electric signals running through its "spinal cord" circuits

An app that logs stressful moments in our lives can help us manage pressure and improve our general health, says its creator Dirk Trossen