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The robot's stretchy, sensor-studded "skin" lets it touch humans without crushing them. Whoops--excuse me. Here's a robot arm that knows when it's bumped into you and can brush safely past you without pressing too hard a...

War waits for no router setup. Functioning internet takes time to set up, which is not a luxury a military on the move usually has, and it's definitely not an option when troops get ambushed. Mobile ad hoc networks (MANE...

-- Team rebuilding world's first website -- Does antimatter fall up or down? -- Researchers Work To Find Out How Gravity Affects Antimatter -- A matter of gravity -- CERN reposts the world's first Web page -- Antimatter ...

Through this two-way communication tele-intensivists can aid local intensivists by helping to enforce the patient's daily goals, review their performance with them and respond to alarms if, as if often the case, the loca...

A new report from the International Energy Agency shows that, despite the rapid spread of renewable technologies, the energy produced today is just as "dirty" as it was 20 years ago.

A new soft-bodied robot is the first air-powered design that can crawl around untethered

The Mars rover Opportunity has put itself into a type of standby mode, and NASA managers are waiting for it to resume normal behavior. The rover may have sensed something amiss while it was waiting out the solar conjunct...

Geneva, 30 April 2013. The ALPHA collaboration at CERN* has published a paper in Nature Communications describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity.

A new generation of drugs promises diagnosis, monitoring, stealth, precision and cure - all in one package (full text available to subscribers)

A decade in the making, this new encryption system is so far unhackable. Virtual Adventures has developed a new form of encryption, and to prove its strength, the company is letting anyone try to crack it. Developed 10 y...

Geneva - Twenty years ago CERN* published a statement that made the World Wide Web ('W3', or simply 'the web') technology available on a royalty free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely avai...

A European Union ban on the neonicotinoid pesticides thought to harm bees is good news, despite British reluctance, says biologist Dave Goulson

China has taken bold strides to tackle climate change, showing carbon reduction is possible alongside economic growth

A pioneering treatment to deliver a vital protein to damaged hearts could restore proper beating

Floating ping-pong balls can teach us how airplanes stay aloft

The UK's first dedicated intelligence officer for online wildlife crime explains why the illegal trade in endangered species has moved to the internet