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The North Atlantic is now wide enough to create exceptionally high tides, making the rate of the moon's retreat faster now than it was 50 million years ago

Five elements at the heart of the periodic table will never look the same again, following an update to their atomic weights

The long-range maritime drone will give the U.S. unprecedented surveillance of the world's oceans. For the U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman, it's shaping up to be a banner year in unmanned flight. While the carrier-based a...

A drone monitoring system that tracks flash floods in real time can buy time to escape before the waters hit

Hypothetical conscious entities that randomly pop into existence may undermine our view of the universe - string theory may banish these Boltzmann brains

A Wisconsin engineer has produced a cheaper, more durable version of Defense Distributed's 3-D printed pistol on an inexpensive, consumer-grade printer. Defense Distributed's plastic, 3-D printed "Liberator" single-shot ...

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The planet-spotting Kepler telescope seems doomed, but its discoveries along with a new version of the famous Drake equation will sharpen the hunt for ET (full text available to subscribers)

The barium levels in a Neanderthal child's molar indicate its mother stopped breastfeeding at 14 months - more than a year earlier than modern humans

For when you just HAVE to beat everyone at Call of Duty. Foc.us is a company that makes headsets for gamers. Those headsets, starting to ship in July, send electricity through your brain. This is their pitch: Overclock y...

The UK's wildlife isn't faring too well, but lost and new species of wild insects and plants are appearing there and elsewhere in Europe

This brazen, beautiful, evidently male Javan leopard doesn't show obvious signs of stress - despite being recently added to the Red List of endangered species

The United States Air Force has a serious need for speed. On May first their X-51A Waverider zoomed to an amazing Mach 5.1 - more than five times the speed of sound.

We no longer have to wonder what self-awareness looks like, says neuroscientist Daniel Bor - now we can see for ourselves (full text available to subscribers)

Introducing Generation Robot For Christmas in 1993, my father gave me a My Magic Diary, a children's version of Casio's digital organizer. From that point on, I always had some iteration of that device--whether a PalmPil...

Meet the machines that might rescue you after a future disaster. Thanks to their mechanical strength and ability to operate in conditions too dangerous for humans, robots are poised to become the rescuers of the future. ...

The new coronavirus that emerged in the Arabian Peninsula last year is spreading among people that have had no contact with a known infected case