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Stereo photogrammetry will tell engineers if a tree falls in the forest. Stereo photogrammetry is a process used to determine the strain on a certain structure, which is why it was used to investigate the causes of the S...

The "Do Not Call" list sucks. Winners of a Federal Trade Commission contest propose some high-tech strategies to finally stop automated sales calls. They slip through the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's "Do Not Call" reg...

-- Detectors zero in on Earth's heat -- Cern begins LHC upgrade to boost dark matter search -- Cosmic Journey 13 Billion Years In The Making Seen By Plank -- Listen to the big bang - now in hi-fi! -- How the Large Hadron...

And now, this country that has risen from poverty to become the world's thirteenth richest after striking oil, is doing renewable energy in a characteristically big way. They've just completed the world's largest solar p...

What is an Autofuss? Good question. The four year old San Francisco design firm is hard to pin down. Go to the website to find out, and you will be shown (not told) with a lush selection of video shorts defying the laws ...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: your possessions in the cloud, present tech shock, Antarctic ice paradox, stupidity, and more

Counter-intuitively, global warming may be cooling the surface waters of the Southern Ocean, increasing the extent of Antarctic ice

Transistor-like devices have been made out of DNA, making biological gadgets with built-in circuitry possible

A deposit under the Pacific Ocean gives Japan a new source of the valuable rare earth metals commonly used in electronics

In Present Shock, Douglas Rushkoff says everyday technologies have destroyed our sense of perspective, but his insights need better backup

More than half of the country's streams and rivers are in a poor condition for aquatic life, according to the Environmental Protection Agency

In the digital age, your files and memories are not truly yours any more, says Douglas Heaven. They belong to the cloud (full text available to subscribers)

Today's Google doodle commemorates Maria Sibylla Merian - entomologist, botanical illustrator, explorer and pioneering female scientist

DARPA's three-fingered artificial hand is great at grasping, but can't quite manipulate tools. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on making dexterous robot hands to search for explosive devices...

Sakurajima volcano, on the southern tip of Japan, is almost constantly erupting - and sometimes there's accompanying lightning

You can detect the tiny mass of air with materials from around the house

If we want to avoid repeating past mistakes, we must acknowledge that even the brightest people can do monumentally daft things

How do rogue states compete with a superpower? Photoshop, apparently.