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It will be powering smartphone apps by the end of the year too. IBM's Watson computing platform made a name for itself on Jeopardy, but its incremental roll-out into the real world has been no less impressive. It has wor...

Though it hasn't explained exactly how, the Russian government says it is building robots that will minimize casualties during terrorist attacks and engage terrorists directly. It's hard to tell sometimes what's real and...

It's almost June and that means that the launch of the 2013 Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University is right around the corner. To provide tuition support to the 80 international students who've been selected ...

Making pizza out of insect meal, instantly It would take a lot of food to get astronauts to Mars, but what if they could get whatever they wanted at the push of a button? NASA is funding an ambitious 3-D printing food pr...

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The remotely piloted vehicles could one day replace storm chasers, who risk their lives to capture valuable data about tornadoes. The best way for researchers to get information about a tornado is to send sensors high up...

The tornado that struck Oklahoma City in the US on Monday was unusually large and powerful, and it came down at a bad time of day

Researchers have now uncovered an area in the brain about the size of almond in humans that wields powerful control over the body's aging process.

The first 3D-printed copies of real human hearts will help surgeons prepare to work on the problems of the originals

Freshwater expert Sandra Postel reveals how water is destined to become our most precious resource-- and the impact of your personal water footprint.

The race is on to revamp the accelerator that found the Higgs boson, doubling its energy by February 2015. Michael Brooks samples the action at CERN (full text available to subscribers)

The Bonobo and the Atheist and How Animals Grieve show that we must be careful when studying animals to learn about the origins of human traits and behaviours

The longest orbital experiment dedicated purely to biology has returned to Earth. Less than half of the rodents, lizards, fish, and other small animals that were lofted skyward last month made it back alive, but nonethel...

Artificial intelligence expert Mark Bishop says a ban on weapons that can deploy and destroy without human intervention is vital

It's nearly summertime in the northern half of the world - time to find out what the festivals are laying on to entice the rational reveller

-- South Pole Lab Detects Elusive Deep-Space Neutrinos For The First Time -- Antarctic neutrino observatory detects unexplained high-energy particles -- Arctic observatory finds 'alien' particles -- IceCube Neutrino Obse...