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Our ancestors' excrement reveals a rich record of humanity's movements, culture - and faecal worms (full text available to subscribers)

The Cretaceous Period lasted approximately 79 million years, and ended with a major extinction event about 65.5 million years ago.

Poor balloons. A mad genius with the YouTube username WorldScott set up this, uh, experiment? With a hollowed-out flashlight and a laser diode from a Blu-ray burner drive, he zapped a series of 100 balloons lined up in a...

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The hunt is on for the source of the new deadly strain of bird flu and new drugs to tackle it

The brain's mechanism for controlling ageing has been discovered - and manipulated to shorten and extend the lives of mice. Drugs to slow ageing could follow (full text available to subscribers)

And calm your drone-panicked nerves! In September 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration will open standard US airspace to drones. Not keen on the idea of undetected flying robots overhead, a few engineers and compute...

Copying foreign eating habits is a social skill we share with wild primates

The ProDesk3D uses a multi-cartridge system to create full-color objects at home. BotObjects is showing off its newly unveiled ProDesk3D, which they're billing as the first full-color desktop 3-D printer. That's kinda de...

After four years in space, the telescope that brought us galactic bubbles and water on Jupiter has run out of liquid helium and will say goodbye

In October 2004, Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites claimed the $10 million Ansari X Prize when their spacecraft SpaceShipOne achieved suborbital flight--the first private organization to do so. Now, eight and a half years l...

Tour some of the most impressive finds made by the Herschel infrared telescope, from tangles of glowing gas to water-soaked worlds - and a hole in space

There's nothing like a well-conceived picture to drive a point home. You know the point, right? Sure you do. (Hint: It's in the title.) Shall we run through these items? (I don't know if I can ID them all perfectly--feel...