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The agency wants researchers to invent a technology that can determine, in just 30 days, how a new chemical or biological attack works. The U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency has set a new challenge for scien...

Defense Distributed, the Texas company that created the plans for the Liberator, a 3-D-printed gun, have received a letter to take the plans down from the internet, reports Betabeat. If you're wondering why the State Dep...

Snapchat is much more than just an encrypted messaging service. It's a form of communication that gives us a break from the way we usually communicate. Snapchat, a messaging service which allows users to send photos and ...

It took the first four-legged animals 80 million years to evolve jaws that could chew plants

High-altitude cirrus form around rare mineral dust and specks of metal in the atmosphere

Glass embedded in Apollo moon rocks hints that early Earth was born wet, and it held on to that water long enough to donate some to the moon

Bubbles are messy to model since their behaviour changes with size - a model that copes with this has led to the best foam simulation yet

Satellite images from every year since 1984 show the march of human progress--and the retreat of nature. Starting in the 1980s, Alaska's Columbia Glacier began retreating, shrinking from 41 miles long (its originally doc...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: why we couldn't think without analogies, Cleveland captives' path to recovery, Mars, galactic bubbles, and more

Giving old mice blood from young mice reverses the age-related thickening of heart tissue - offering a possible way to rejuvenate hearts and other organs

Lending Club, the peer-to-peer loan firm, recently announced a big investment in the firm's stock by Google and Foundation Capital. Google and Foundation bought $125 million in shares of the firm's outstanding equity on ...

The best way to describe the experience of being a student at SU is to say that it is an Ivy League university from the future: the admissions process is from the year 2012, but the curriculum is from the year 2020.

The neatly defined bubbles emerging from the centre of the Milky Way seem to have been caused by cosmic winds coming to an abrupt stop

A homebuilt airplane designed with maximum efficiency in mind. John McGinnis thinks ordinary families would rather skip the airport and fly themselves. So he is trying to reinvent the personal airplane with the help of h...

It's normal to see a former prime minister and a maple leaf gracing a new Canadian banknote - but now they must make way for the robots

The results of the largest clinical trial of a potential autism drug are in: the drug treats some symptoms but misses others

We talk to forensic psychologists about the mental health issues the three women just rescued from a house in Cleveland, Ohio, will have to face

Scientists aim to "hide" buildings from seismic waves

It's the ultimate demolition derby - stars caught in head-on collisions around a black hole may be responsible for a new kind of supernova

The latest smartphones can tell you a lot about the conditions around you - and then upload that info to build a real-time crowdsourced weather map