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Take a look into a supersonic wind tunnel at NASA This is a 1.79 percent scale model of a concept supersonic aircraft designed by The Boeing Company. You're seeing it through a window in the supersonic wind tunnel at NAS...

Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed the hobbit, lived about 17,000 years ago on a remote Indonesian island.

This is not the future we signed up for! "Gee," the hyper-intelligent children of this Brave New World of ours must often think, "I sure wish Mommy and Daddy had a smartphone-based way of reading me bed-time stories! Per...

-- 'Let it be called Higgs Boson' -- Dark-Matter Mystery Nears Its Moment of Truth -- Watch This Awesome CERN Animation of Big Data Behind the Super Collider -- CERN sheds light on lack of antimatter -- Why does anything...

Just north of the Bay Area is a vast and varied expanse of land and water that could be in line for new federal protections. The proposed Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Conservation Area would link wilderness zones and...

The US is saying it has evidence of chemical weapon use in Syria - but things still don't quite add up

The robot-staffed, windmill-powered Dutch port poised to become the most efficient cargo handler ever. Business is booming at Europe's largest port, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which sees the lion's share of the conti...

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Also it might provide electricity to the undeveloped world. VOTO is a new device that turns fire into a power source for cell phones. Now, where there's fire, there can be modern civilization! The key is a fire-activated...

Thousands of tiny computers that scavenge power from their surroundings could one day be used to monitor your world

Scientists have made strides recently in coming up with ways to detect autism earlier in children. But a recent study suggests it might be possible to diagnose the disorder right at the moment of birth. The telltale sign...

Climate change and rising tides are predicted to take a toll on our shoreline areas in the Bay Area. Find out more about last winter's King Tides and what actions are underway to help plan for future sea level rise.

We all feel the forward march of time, but the laws of physics tell us it is an illusion. A radical rethink is needed, argues theoretical physicist Lee Smolin (full text available to subscribers)

A model of a low-noise, low-emission supersonic airliner in a NASA wind tunnel evokes our reporter's nostalgia for Concorde's glory days

Bad news for the timber industry but great news for tourism Deforestation definitely isn't doing nature any favors, but at least there's a financial incentive for it, right? Well, not really, actually, as this infographi...

A global row has erupted over errors in research used to bolster the case for austerity. Open data might have spared us the pain, says Velichka Dimitrova

British royal family plans mission to Mars, things not to do with a razor blade, passive-aggressive cookie law, and more (full text available to subscribers)

An electronic patch can analyse complex brainwaves and listen in on a fetus's heart

The northern hemisphere is on average 1.5 °C hotter than its southern twin, but this isn't because it contains most of the world's land

The long-running dam replacement project must pause to deal with a sleeping monster.