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Maker of the epic ocean-going robot, Wave Glider, Liquid Robotics announced it's engineered and will ship the next generation this fall. The new Wave Glider SV3 combines Liquid Robotics' proprietary wave-energy harvestin...

Our friends over at Flying have a great slideshow up walking us through the 50 greatest innovations in navigation of all time. It's really fun to see how primitive but effective navigation used to be--celestial navigatio...

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will be the first spacecraft to scan the entire sky looking for Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars

Women shown life-sized projections of typical male bodies preferred those that were taller, had broad shoulders - and larger penises

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: body language, one-way ticket to Mars, nuclear forge, red meat alert, antimatter, and more

You've got only two days left to explore the fun side of neurology at London's Barbican Centre

For centuries, the threat and selective use of brute force has steered the international balance of power. In the last couple of decades, the system has increasingly accommodated economic power as a means of non-violent ...

A startup called Cumulonimbus Inc launched an Android app called PressureNET that displays barometric pressure and allowed users to submit their data. The latest version of the app goes a step further with a way for the ...

A cheap wireless device can monitor the power consumption of your appliances with 98 per cent accuracy - and doesn't even need plugging in

Don't count on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) ancestry tests giving you a broad understanding of your own family history. They won't.

Recent disasters cast doubt on nuclear safety, but a pair of research papers argues that nuclear power is still safer than coal. Surely a disaster like Fukushima means that nuclear power is more dangerous than more tradi...

Think you're good at interpreting people's non-verbal signals? Well, there's more - and sometimes less - to our movements and poses than meets the eye (full text available to subscribers)

Photographer Sebastião Salgado sets the armour-like scales of the world's only seafaring lizard among the hard landscape of the Galapagos Islands' laval rocks

When disaster strikes and danger looms, the heroes that burst onto the scene to save the day might not even be human. It's hard to comprehend the bravery required for a person to run into a burning building rather than f...

To solve the tragedy of child mortality we need to set up an international market in ill health, say Roman Carrasco, Alex Cook and Richard Coker