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It's only the second torpedo of its kind ever found. Dolphins have been used for 50 years to help the U.S. Navy echolocate mines. That project is going away in 2017 (to be replaced by robots) but in the meantime, a team ...

Among those of us who grew up with the Internet, some have found unexpected, outsize benefits. If you moved away from a place soon after starting kindergarten and never went back--how much would you remember about the to...

QUEST Northwest Educational Explainer Ocean Acidification It is widely known that humankinds burning of fossil fuels since the industrial revolution has added carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere, but this excessive ...

The Navy's unmanned, autonomous combat jet demonstrator continues to successfully pass milestones for unmanned aviation The Navy's unmanned and autonomous X-47B continues to hit new milestones. Less than a week after com...

Vitamin supplements seem to prevent atrophy of brain regions such as the hippocampus, which waste away in people with Alzheimer's

Energy profiles of diving seabirds reveal they sacrifice flying efficiency to swim better, edging towards flightlessness

A newly released rifle with a computer aiming system lets you "tag" the target with a laser pulse and analyses when is the best moment to pull the trigger, making it easy for anyone to become a long-range killer

After two years of searching, the icy observatory has finally found evidence of the high-energy particles, which may have come from a distant black hole or supernova. It looks like the IceCube Observatory neutrino detect...

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The American chestnut was the king of the trees in forests in the eastern U.S. until a fungus from Asia brought them down. We are getting very close to making a resistant American chestnut. Now the question is whether or...

A man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells can see well enough to get a driver's licence after receiving a stem-cell transplant

But research now shows that the active ingredient in the soap, triclosan, alters hormonal balance in animals, is possibly harmful to the immune system, and possibly contributes to the rise of antibiotic resistant germs.

Smarter Object combines the adaptability of digital interfaces with the ease of use of real world devices.

How does a bunch of neurons conjure up our conscious sensations, thoughts, memories and emotions? Our special feature explores what neuroscience has revealed

Stanislaw Lem's forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony

A report by the US Centers for Disease Control reveals that in any one year, 13 to 20 per cent of US children experience a mental health disorder

From 700 kilometres above Kansas, you can see how huge swathes of the state have been patterned by agriculture

If Germany can phase out nuclear power and still thrive, why would other nations pursue a uranium-fuelled future, wonders Jochen Flasbart