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Disappointed by the heavy reliance on English for programming, computer scientist and designer Ramsey Nasser created a new coding language in Arabic

Cool land could help meet bandwidth needs, just look below you Companies have made data centers--those big warehouses full of servers--into creative, even beautiful, spaces before. But, short on available land, Hong Kong...

Rabbits are popular pets because they are social and adapt to humans well.

A report on the state of biological defense research finds lots of problems--but really manageable ones. A week after September 11, 2001, letters containing lethal anthrax spores killed five people, and sparked a an FBI ...

An analysis of emotionally charged words in digitised 20th century books suggests English speakers are becoming less emotional

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From a beginning that resembles an upside-down bowl to an end called the Big Rip, the Planck telescope's new map is changing our understanding of the universe (full text available to subscribers)

Navigating space isn’t easy—there’s no air, water, or earth to push your spacecraft in another direction. Rocket fuels and gravity assist have been our best tools for over fifty years. But in 2014, N...

Big Data: A revolution that will transform how we live by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier alternates enthusiasm and apocalyptic caution

The audacious norovirus has a range of amazing abilites that allow it to spread like wildfire.Yet its inner workings still elude us (full text available to subscribers)

A new class of malaria drug kills parasites in human blood, in the liver and in mosquitoes, preventing further transmission

The service offers a tongue-in-cheek way of warning someone who tweets about how much they hate their job that they might have gone too far

When NASA technicians saw the navigation system on the Morpheus lander prototype shut off less than a second after liftoff, they knew the craft was doomed. It was August, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the 27th ...

Tired of listening to all of your favorite songs over and over again on Pandora? Or the loud and way-too-human bands that leave your ears ringing after every concert? One alternative is the Toa Mata Band. Not a garage ba...

Someday we might be able to resurrect some of these long extinct species. The species depicted here have all become extinct since the mid 1700s and the colonization of the New World. Part of the painting GONE from 2004, ...

Welcome to round three of the world's nerdiest bracket! To recap: we've compiled a list of some of the strongest, fastest, and strangest landbots and sky drones around. Your job: vote for your favorites. Round two got pr...

Researchers at the University of Michigan want to use wave radar to find guns on students A radar-based concept originally developed to detect suicide bombs abroad could be used to find people carrying concealed weapons ...

Gills from manta rays fetch high prices in China, but trade could be more tightly controlled following this year's CITES meeting

We're all familiar with images of lurching robots performing rote tasks on the factory production lines. But the capabilities of robots have evolved well beyond the banality of those grainy industrial films. Today's indu...

A Twitter analysis reveals New York's ethnic neighborhoods

We seem to be unable to punish bankers for their scandalous behaviour. That's because our moral instincts can't cope, says Christopher Boehm

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