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A camera finds individual drops, then a projector blacks them out of the driver's view. Anyone who's ever driven through a heavy rain has hoped for something like this: a system that can make rain drops vanish--or at lea...

The Virgin Galactic space plane fired its rocket and soared above the Mojave Desert. Founder Richard Branson says they will reach space by year's end

The snake 'bot will slither through collapsed buildings on its way to saving you and/or scaring you out of your mind. Carnegie Mellon's modular snake robot has been tested for use in both rescue operations and situations...

A massive volcanic eruption 75,000 years ago seems to have had little effect on the climate, suggesting that such huge blasts could be survivable

Give this guy a baseball contract, stat. brightcove.createExperiences(); There've been a few attempts recently to build robots that function sort of like the human brain: artificial intelligences that "learn" from their ...

Tech hooks into your home's electric system to track touch from afar Touchscreens aren't exactly expensive or rare, but the uTouch project from researchers at the University of Washington is doing something we've never s...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: strange creatures far below our feet, criminal corporations, psychiatry's Higgs moment, and more

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: strange creatures far below our feet, criminal corporations, psychiatry's Higgs moment, and more

A prototype device that needs no calibration is taking gaze-tracking to the next level - and might be ideal for a new generation of advertising displays

Soldiers have a futuristic new way to find snipers. A new DARPA-funded smartphone app analyzes the sounds and shockwaves from bullets to determine the source of gunfire. Researchers at Vanderbilt University created the a...

An explosion in central Prague that injured up to 40 people illustrates the risk of leaks from 100-year-old infrastructure in countries around the world

A wasp that's even smaller than its fairy-tale Peter Pan namesake has been found among the leaf litter of a Costa Rican forest

What would Dr. Evil do with a supercomputer, a giant laser, and a 30-meter deformable mirror? Hold the planet for ransom, of course. The billion-dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project, on the other hand, will assemb...

From Methuselah microbes to animals that eschew oxygen, strange underground organisms are redefining what life means - and where it will end (full text available to subscribers)

Google's awesome/creepy personal assistant lands on iOS. Google Now, the service that's made us say "holy crap" out loud more than just about anything else over the past year, is finally leaving its warm Android nest for...

Three sub-populations of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have been identified in Cambodia - this should make it easier to track resistance

Patients who learned weight maintenance techniques through the game "Second Life" were more likely to keep the weight off. Videogames and weight loss are an odd pairing, but in a study, researchers found the game "Second...

Two new books tell the complex, fascinating and sometimes frustrating tale of attempts to hold multinationals to account for environmental and social crimes

How do people lie on a bed of nails without leaving a mark?

Fighting the scourge of mental illness means giving psychiatry the kind of boost that physics got from the Higgs hunt, says Nick Craddock