Science News

The human face is a treasure trove of information. A millisecond after meeting someone, we've guessed their general age bracket, gender, mood, and more. With tech startup IMRSV's new face detection software Cara--release...

The company's venture capital arm has just made a big investment in unmanned systems. Echoing a company belief in autonomous systems, clever algorithms, and replacing fallible humans with smart machines, Google's venture...

A new delivery concept uses the location of random strangers to TwedEx parcels directly to you - wherever you are

The, erm, splashy future of skyscrapers In the future, all buildings will resemble massive toilet brushes. Perhaps not, but that's the net-zero energy future of skyscrapers envisioned by Belatchew Arkitekter in an idea c...

A strange kind of photography called ghost imaging has been extended to work in 3D, and may one day prove useful for medical or security scans

Up, up, and away--without a pilot. The great thing about robots is that they take boring, repetitive tasks from humans, which frees up our superior minds for more creative endeavors (like building more robots.) Flying a ...

It's what school children have been waiting for - stimulating the brain speeds up mental arithmetic and the results seem to last

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: new US agony beam weapon, malarial mosquitoes sniff you out, Google and NASA go quantum, and more

Why not use a crazy sci-fi technology (quantum computing) to solve a classic crazy sci-fi problem (artificial intelligence)? Google announced today a partnership with NASA and D-Wave to launch a lab to solve artificial i...

Scott Hubbard, former director of the NASA Ames Research Center, speculates on how NASA could revive the ailing space telescope. Yesterday NASA officials confirmed that the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope had su...

The processes of memory formation and retrieval have been observed across the entire brain for the first time using transparent zebrafish

New big-name clients for quantum-computer maker D-Wave may signal that their devices are going mainstream - but are they really that fast?

New big-name clients for quantum-computer maker D-Wave may signal that their devices are going mainstream - but are they really that fast?

We visit a doctor when something feels wrong. We routinely receive care too late -- millions die because of delayed diagnosis. Future of healthcare delivery flips this equation. Can we be treated before we fall sick?

New understandings about how scientists think have forced changes in school science standards.

New understandings about how scientists think inspire changes in school science standards.

A weapon that fires a beam hundreds of metres to induce unbearable pain is ready to be unleashed on the world - what should be done with it? (full text available to subscribers)

Imagine if you could bring a slew of virtual experts around with you and ask them for advice whenever the need arose. Although that sounds like futuristic technology, a new app from Esquire magazine shows that it's a wor...

The Army fires up a sunshine simulator. Each year, some 20 soldiers experience Afghanistan's 118°F heat for the first time not in the field but in a lab in Natick, Massachusetts. For six decades, the Doriot Climatic Cha...

It's a rarely seen phenomenon - high winds have blown ice floes ashore in Canada and the US on two consecutive days, destroying homes

The concept of "natural" makes little sense in our ever-changing, human-dominated world

The unexpected return of therapeutic cloning could reopen ethical arguments that seemed to have been laid to rest