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If we weren't all using 1960s technology to conduct financial transactions, maybe we wouldn't get heisted. Yesterday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn revealed that an international team of thieves had stolen close to $45...

A heap of new evidence from space telescopes and underground detectors could be pointing the way to the first solid sign of dark matter

-- Particle Storage Ring To Move From New York's Brookhaven Lab To Fermilab In Illinois -- Atomic nuclei go pear-shaped -- Why hasn't everything been annihilated yet? Pear-shaped atomic nuclei could hold answer. -- Pear-...

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All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: hunting car bombs, secret lives of bubbles, the ex-con who became a painter via a stroke, and more

The universe is strangely magnetic - and a process of runaway expansion at its birth can now explain why

A synthetic antivenom may one day lead to a vaccine against the bites of deadly spiders

Once a hardened criminal, Tommy McHugh had a stroke that gave him a compulsive urge to paint and talk in rhyme - and unable to hurt a fly

Robot developer Franck Calzada has brought us one step closer to creating an assistant scribe for the common man in his new program with which NAO can write any word.

The Mars rover will drill a new rock to double-check for signs the planet could once have been hospitable to life. After a few weeks off because of the pesky sun, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is awake and back to work, an...

"I was freaked, because I was really close to it and was worried it was going to hit me." Throughout the storied history of aviation, humankind has fought to slip the surly bonds of Earth using heavier and heavier things...

A good year for crops has a cruel twist as billions of insects devour harvests, threatening more than half the country with hunger

A wireless data-gathering grenade to toss into danger. After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, search-and-rescue teams descended upon Port-au-Prince to look for survivors. Francisco Aguilar, a graduate student in p...

We may soon reap the benefits of quantum computing now that a D-Wave quantum device has beaten a regular PC in a number-crunching face-off

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A system uses lasers to detect traces of explosives left on car door handles by would-be bombers

100,000 downloads just might prove him right. Earlier today we reported that Defense Distributed, an organization that recently released open-source plans for a 3-D printed gun, received a letter from the U.S. State Depa...

Treatment with acupuncture needles does work to alleviate pain and nausea, studies show.