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Ready-made spare parts, waste recycling, 3-D printed human ears: the Navy of the future will have it all. 3-D printing is the future of the Navy, say Scott Cheney-Peters and Matthew Hipple in the latest issue of the U.S....

An experiment that exploits the same underlying physics as medical scanners could help detect a super-elusive dark matter candidate, the axion

By linking the technologies of two brain/computer interfaces, human volunteers are able to exert limited control over a rodent's movement

Now on Kickstarter: a house that opens up when it's light out, and folds back in when it turns cold. Way back in 1903, mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney worked out how a perfect square could be cut into sections and fol...

After a three-decade hiatus, work is finally under way on a new wave of reactors thanks to government funding - but China is already way ahead

For the first time, a forecast predicted by a climate model has been put to the test, and found to be accurate to within a few hundredths of a degree

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: rivers in the sky, dark flow, dark matter, how the US is fighting the flab, and more

It is the fattest nation on Earth, with one-third of adults obese, but the US is bursting with ideas on how to turn things around (full text available to subscribers)

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) are recruiting a million participants to join a decade long heart health study. The enabling factor? Smartphones. It's a great example of information tech...

Along with RoboteX founder Nathan Gettings, chief executive Alexander Karp, and four other unnamed investors, the group filed $5 million in funding for the California-based company.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's first results could be evidence of dark matter. Right in Earth's neighborhood, space is positively bubbling with high-energy antimatter particles--a lot more than can be explained. These...

Commissioned to photograph the Cray supercomputer plant, Lee Friedlander captured more than just the technology with his unconventional photographs

A 19th-century sword bristling with teeth proves that two shark species used to ply the seas around the Gilbert Islands

From aboard the International Space Station, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has seen what may be our first glimpse of dark matter

Extreme floods around the world could have a common cause - mysterious great rivers of water that gush through the atmosphere (full text available to subscribers)

Researchers create a virtual environment system in which you can pick up fake objects with real effort. Maybe this is how we'll work out in the future: throw on a pair of shorts, strap on our virtual reality goggles, and...

In the new exhibition on display at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, "Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach's Cancer Alley," the Berkeley photographer takes a hard look at the environmental consequences of our dependence o...

Roadrunner, the first petaflop computer, is being decommissioned at the ripe old age of five. Computers grow up so fast these days. The Roadrunner supercomputer, once the fastest computer in the world and the pride of Lo...

Never get caught in the rough again. Golf carts aren't exactly marvels of horsepower, but that doesn't mean they can't be unique. Take this hovercraft-cart, for example. It's actually a promotion for Oakley, with pro gol...

Australia's record-smashing weather has been blamed on climate change, and the country has been warned to prepare for worse and more frequent extremes

The best map yet of light from the infant universe seems to rule out the strange motion of galaxy clusters, knocking down one sign of a multiverse

Before you click through, think about it. If you can name more than three, consider us surprised. China's version of Google has 580 million users. It makes, according to some surveys, around 50 percent of all the junk in...