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The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed the Associated Press's telephone records. How much data will officials have access to? Yesterday the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Justice used subpoe...

As PopSci cheers from the carrier deck ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH, ATLANTIC OCEAN--All that was left on the carrier deck was a cloud of white steam wafting over a flight crew that was visibly bursting with excitemen...

Forensic image analysis relaunches the controversy. In February, the winner of the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award came under fire after allegations surfaced that it had been significantly altered. The or...

A system that gauges your enjoyment of online adverts by using a webcam to watch your face muscles move could help tailor more engaging commercials

-- Huge magnetic ring coming to Chicago's suburbs via the long road -- Cern to open scientific tourist trail -- Scientist finds beauty in search for elusive dark matter -- Fermilab Proposes Neutrino Construction Project ...

An HVAC system powered by an 18-wheeler's exhaust. Semitruck drivers idle their engines to heat or cool their vehicles' cabs--a practice that burns a billion gallons of fuel each year. Small engines on the back of a cab,...

A sleek, comfortable space suit designed to protect high-flying tourists. During NASA's 2007 Astronaut Glove Challenge, costume fabricator Ted Southern met fellow competitor Nikolay Moiseev, a Russian space-suit builder....

An international team of physicists at the radioactive-beam facility ISOLDE at CERN* have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine**.

It's a momentous occasion for the autonomous drone, sure, but remote-controlled airplanes have been making naval history for 86 years. The U.S. Navy's autonomous X-47B drone took off from an aircraft carrier today. This ...

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Peter Aldhous visits a biosafety lab rushing to produce a vaccine that could be the main defence against an H7N9 flu pandemic that would threaten millions

A DIY metaphor for peace Changing swords into plowshares and spears into pruning-hooks is an ancient metaphor for turning away from violence and toward peaceful labor. Mike Izbicki, a former Navy midshipman who in 2011 w...

A cheaper option than aircraft or satellite monitoring, the GROVER rover will reveal the effects of climate change on ice cover in Greenland

Robo Raven is a truly clever robot flier--it can dive, spiral, even back flip. Although up close, Robo Raven's reflective body doesn't look very hawk-like, its wing motion and silhouette are realistic enough to fool a ha...

Taiwan's Polytron Techologies, a subsidiary of US firm Polytronix, wants to change the way we look at (and through) glass, one of mankind's oldest inventions. Polytron makes giant touchscreens, selectively opaque glass, ...

Drones are notorious for their grim military and law enforcement uses. But as the cost of UAV technology has plummeted in recent years, non-government use of DIY drones is on the up and up. Take feral hogs, for example. ...

A new proof brings mathematicians a step closer to solving one of number theory's most famously intractable problems

We should all be eating more insects, because doing so is better for the environment than eating conventional meat like beef

The former Director General at the Center for International Forestry Research, Frances Seymour has been a world leader in the effort to understand and address the impacts of tropical deforestation for 20 years. Or as she...

A programmable animatronic robot kit. Brian Roe spent nearly a decade building animatronic monsters for films such as Virus, A.I., and Scooby Doo 2. Then, almost overnight, Hollywood abandoned mechanical characters for c...

Learn about centripetal force with a bucket of water

How did a unique and now extinct wolf-like creature come to make its home in the Falkland Islands? New DNA evidence backs an unlikely explanation (full text available to subscribers)