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Hunting behaviour and sexual practice of the king of the jungle varies greatly depending on where you are in Africa

And why their reasoning is not all that surprising Cyberspace makes for a strange battlefield. Attacks are launched from offices, combatants fight with keystrokes, and the targets are usually just information, financial ...

The sun will get in the way of Earth and Mars, blocking communications. For the scientists and engineers working on NASA's Mars program, an upcoming alignment of the planets presages some possible good news. Thanks to th...

Why is a rotting whale on the Antarctic seafloor exciting to geologists?

A system that watches you lift weights aims to improve your technique – and could one day work for all sorts of athletic movements

A future full of spy drones sounds pretty scary. Except it’s already here. Senators, law enforcement officials, and assorted experts attended a judiciary hearing yesterday to discuss the implications of drones in ...

An imaging study finds distinctive brain disruptions in people with Gulf War Syndrome, though the cause remains mysterious

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A drone-hire organisation wants to help conservationists and animal welfare groups gather evidence – but pro-hunt groups doubt they'll succeed

What happens when you take "all you can eat" all too literally – and how do competitive eaters stretch the limits of their stomachs? (full text available to subscribers)

This is no ordinary john. "One-and-a-half million children die each year from diseases related to poor sanitation. We’re building a disinfecting toilet that doesn’t need running water or massive treatment p...

Visit London's Design Museum to check out the innovative nominations for its Designs of the Year awards

The latest in a slew of press from major automakers, BMW and Continental recently announced a partnership to develop new technology for self-driving cars. The collaboration aims to develop an “electronic co-pilotâ...

The best map yet of the cosmic microwave background, from ESA's Planck satellite, confirms our view of the early universe but strange anomalies remain

Happy March Madness! Love, us. Welcome to the Popular Science March Madness bracket! We don’t know much about sports--is that where you toss around a ball for a few years then strap on an orange vest and help kids...

Lisa Grossman builds a handcrafted cellphone using widely available parts and online instructions

Rockets that sent people to the moon have just been pulled from the bottom of the sea as part of an effort led by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos

Small inventors fear the move to "first to file" will only help mega corporations invent around their ideas and patent first

Flying drones 1. "Eagle" drone: a quadrotor with a 3-D printed claw that scoops up objects the way an eagle grasps prey 2. Ryan Firebee: the grandpa of the drone world; did recon during Vietnam and was one of the first d...

A disturbing new dimension is added to the heated debate over autism's underlying causes, following a study of thousands of women in the US