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Small machines are ubiquitous. They've proliferated exponentially for forty years and are now all around us. Since new technology can be scary, especially small machine technologies that human eyes can't see, I'm writing...

DARPA's new on-the-go navigation chip can measure orientation, acceleration, and time. GPS is great, but it isn't always reliable. The signal can be interrupted by, say, a tunnel, or something else smothering the relay b...

If you suffer from Google Fiber envy, which delivers close to gigabit speeds, there's good news: you don't have to move to Kansas anymore. It was only last November when Google Fiber launched in Kansas City at a cost of ...

Psychological stress brought on by the economic crisis may trigger genes that threaten the long-term health of future generations (full text available to subscribers)

A rare clutch of fossil dinosaur embryos reveals how sauropods grew so fast

The iconic rings produce charged particles that rain down on the planet's atmosphere, where they carve out an imprint

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A technique that turns organs transparent could let us peer inside the mind more easily

But his plan for a 5,000-person, eco-friendly city lives on Paolo Soleri, the futuristic, eco-conscious architect, died yesterday at 93. He is best known among the masses (and in the scientific community, to some extent)...

Our favourite images from the Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition

Playing in a Gobi desert sandstorm, these children follow an ancient nomadic lifestyle that is now up against the interests of international mining companies

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You can use the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin to buy an ever-lengthening list of items. Last week, a 2007 Porsche Cayenne sale was settled in the currency. But a house? Sure, why not. 23-year-old Taylor More is listing ...

Digital technology is fuelling a linguistic revolution in which even simple expressions like LOL mask sophisticated layers of meaning, argues Tom Chatfield (full text available to subscribers)

Just 35 per cent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support the party's stance on climate change, according to a new poll

Your tweets are not a very good measure of your age, especially if you're thirtysomething-plus, according to a Dutch study

Emergency contraception could be available in the US without prescription within a month - and the first morning-sickness drug for 30 years wins approval

For the first time, the femmes fatales of the ocean have been tracked over the whole of their two-year migratory cycle