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You can't hide from the infrared eye of the law. The night before police captured Dzhokar Tsarnaev, a convenience store robbery set off a series of events that included the death of an MIT police officer, a gunfight that...

"I firmly believe that this is something that's going to revolutionize our society. With this technology we have a lot of tools that can solve a lot of humanity's problems. We're limited only by our imagination."

This flowchart contains spoilers! This infographic by Mr. Dalliard documents the nature, logic, and scale of time travel in film. Most of the terms are straightforward, and then there's the "Novikov self-consistency prin...

Many archaeologists believe that the Maya learned to build pyramids from the dominant Olmec civilisation, but new finds suggest otherwise

Magnetic fields normally wane as distance increases, but a new hose changes things. Electromagnetic waves can travel over long distances without interruption. But magnetism, the field that attracts or repels objects, onl...

A ranking system for quantum effects gives us a sense of how close - or not - we are to realising Schrödinger's cat

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: urban cool, alien water worlds, how to get online if you can't read or write, the unreal world, and more

The most complicated $100 bill yet For as long as there has been money, there've been people trying to make fake money. In the U.S., the latest effort to stop counterfeiting will arrive October 8, when the next $100 bill...

Depersonalisation disorder - in which your memories feel alien and your world unreal - is less rare than you might think. We speak to someone who has it

A combination of depth cameras and projectors called WorldKit lets you create zappers for TVs, room lighting, and more, on any bit of household furniture

Proponents of natural gas, or methane in its purest form, say it is cleaner than coal and oil, lacks the PR problems and toxic waste byproducts of nuclear, and more efficiently produces electricity than sustainable sourc...

An award-winning image of brightly coloured microscopic pom-poms reveals how a novel material affects crystal growth

A controversial find of stone tools in Brazil suggests that humans somehow reached the Americas at the height of the last ice age

Can new technology and astute planning keep our cities cool in the face of global warming? Kat Austen investigates the best ideas (full text available to subscribers)

A water drop magnifies a view of Paris, shedding new light on the city

A pair of planets roughly the size of Earth are adding to the diversity of life-friendly worlds we may find across the galaxy (full text available to subscribers)

A new internet system is giving a voice to people in Africa who cannot read or write or who lack a computer

Great things are afoot in the Singularity Hub Membership Program, and all signs point to even more growth in a community thriving more than ever before. What makes us so confident of the future? Because we're passionate ...

Potassium is a highly reactive metal that explodes when it comes in contact with water. But it is also an essential nutrient.