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Super-light, flapping-wing flight in any direction

Delivering mail with quadcopters may be silly, but the concept is being talked about for real. April Fool's Day sucks, because people on the Internet say things that would be awesome if they were real, and sadly are not....

The winners of the Google Glass Explorer contest have been announced, and the lucky few get to do a beta run of Google's new gadget. Data shows what they had in common. Last week, Google announced the winners of the Goog...

We're this close to having a usable biocomputer. Pretty much anything can be a computer, if it can compute logical functions, store data, and transmit information -- even living cells. A team at Stanford University has a...

Instead of using rockets or thrusters, a craft equipped with warp drive would move by distorting space. The warp drive proposed by Miguel Alcubierre would achieve faster-than-light speeds by distorting space-time. The de...

A NASA scientist claIms to be on the verge of faster-than-light travel: is he for real? Last September, a few hundred scientists, engineers and space enthusiasts gathered at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Houston for the se...

Migraines affect about 30 million Americans, but anti-migraine medications are often ineffective or cause unpleasant side effects. New research indicates that migraines may be prevented by wearing a headband that stimula...

Human intelligence varies astonishingly. Why didn't evolution make us all geniuses, and why do even those with high IQ act like fools, asks Sally Adee (full text available to subscribers)

Paolo Zamboni didn't buy into the conventional wisdom that multiple sclerosis was an autoimmune disorder resulting in the wearing away of the nervous system's cellular insulation: myelin. Instead, the vascular surgeon fr...

What does it take for a state to be selected as a drone test site?

The pros and cons of seven potential drone test sites.

Nascent stars and gigantic dust pillars collide

Dangerous biological stowaways could easily be banished from ships' ballast. It's a disgrace that rich nations won't play ball, says Fred Pearce