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Plus three robots that are already saving lives. Yesterday, the President of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Michael Toscano told U.S. News: "Whether it is in response to a natural disaster or ...

Side-stepping traffic by mining data At the GPU Technology Conference 2013 show in San Jose, Audi announced some of its plans for its Cars of the Future, The Register reports. One of the coolest ideas: cars that can pred...

A synthetic version of the world's most effective antimalarial can be made in three weeks, pushing out firms whose therapies promote drug resistance

The next wave in digital construction will see complex buildings erected perfectly by automated robot arms, or even 3D-printed on the spot in concrete (full text available to subscribers)

Imagine a mall. Now imagine a mall in the year 2150. The design firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), along with a few added team members (Tess, Transsolar, Base, Transitec, and Michel Forgue) have won first place in a competi...

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The successful transplant of lab-grown rat kidneys is just the start - teams are working on a host of replacement body parts, from noses to hearts (full text available to subscribers)

Singularity University's FutureMed continues to be a hot ticket. Following the successful (and sold out) February program, the organizers of FutureMed have announced a second program in November 2013. The more intimate a...

German manufacturing firm Festo recently resurrected a Paleozoic dragonfly. No, we're not talking de-extinction or synthetic biology--this baby's robotic. But at 70 cm (27 in) by 48 cm (19 in), Festo's BionicOpter robot ...

Mystery of how pollutant kills solved by study showing ozone stifles breathing

This fiery infrared satellite image shows the Gulf Stream as it bends and stretches eastward toward Europe

Last week, scientists and regulators from more than 20 countries gathered in San Francisco to discuss the latest research on flame retardants. The conference lasted four days, but the theme of the meeting was clear from ...

The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is too male, too Western and too demanding - fixing it will take some radical changes, says Jim Giles (full text available to subscribers)

An Australophithecus sediba fossil may yield new clues to our evolution if skin traces are confirmed - such as when we lost our body hair (full text available to subscribers)

An Australophithecus sediba fossil may yield new clues to our evolution if skin traces are confirmed - such as when we lost our body hair and left the trees (full text available to subscribers)

Seemingly habitable worlds may actually be too dry for life if their magnetic shielding isn't strong enough, leaving them exposed to damaging radiation

Children show how robot-human interaction will work at this year's Cambridge Science Festival in Boston

The secret to fighting a war at night? Tiny, tiny, tiny pixels. Human eyesight is such a limiting factor in military missions that DARPA is trying to fix it. Not with lasers; those are reserved for ships, but instead wit...

An outpouring of ghostly neutrinos from the core of a dying star triggers weak but noticeable bursts of light that signal the birth of a black hole

According to NBC News, law enforcement is now saying that the bombs used in the attack on the Boston Marathon were constructed of pressure cookers filled with shrapnel. This is a common and low-rent bomb, typically made ...