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Mosquitoes carrying dangerous falciparum malaria are three times as likely as uninfected ones to bite us - perhaps because they can sniff us out better

New Google Maps, a totally new GChat, new features for Android, and more. Google announced a bunch of stuff today at the annual I/O conference in California. The announcements are mostly updates--nothing as exciting as t...

A new device protects soldiers by detecting and locating optical glass. U.S. defense contractors spend a lot of resources developing robots that help the Pentagon's various services keep an eye on their enemies, but San ...

Check out how much money you're not making. Something to think about as the millisecond tick by today: how much money you're not making from the slight discrepancies between the values of securities on the world's intern...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: Asian origins, Red List for ecosystems, permanent Mars colony, face-reading tech, and more

A new survey shows that around the world, the fish caught in local nets are increasingly adapted to warmer waters

Fancy seeing the sky in neutrino? Supermassive black holes, giant exploding stars and dark matter may give up their secrets now that neutrinos from space are detectable

Water circulating through rock fractures deep underground has been isolated from the rest of the planet for billions of years - does it harbour ancient life?

Fossils of the earliest ape and Old World monkey ever unearthed were found in the tectonically active East African Rift. Did the rift boost their evolution?

Conservationists are launching a Red List of Ecosystems to assess the health of whole habitats. Here are six that have been studied so far

Inside the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, there's a submillimeter-wavelength camera perfectly tuned to peer through the clouds of interstellar dust and gas that o...

Focusing on drones as devices of scary military surveillance and execution ignores the entire field of consumer drones--which are, basically, next-generation remote-controlled helicopters. One of the fields that's seeing...

The landmark achievement revives the hope of being able to generate new tissues using a patient's own cells, eliminating the risk of immune rejection

Gentleman, some ground rules first. No caltrops, spike strips, cattle prods, or stun guns. No spears, hammers, saw blades, lasers, or flame weapons. We'll play three 3-minute periods. If all players die in any given peri...

Breast cancer geneticist Allison Kurian explains how lifetime risk for invasive cancer is determined and used to guide treatment

With the evolution of the genus Homo, our ancestors became distinctly human. Now we have hints that this great event occurred not in Africa but in Eurasia (full text available to subscribers)

The iconic Arctic mammals' limited immune system may put them at particular risk if new pathogens spread northwards as the world warms

A sustainable outpost on the Red Planet may be humanity's only chance of survival, but challenges include growing food and overcoming insomnia