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The first television screens that are laced with quantum dots can produce a far greater range of colours than any previous screens

Superfoods are foods thought to be good for one's health. The term has no set scientific meaning, however, and any list of superfoods is subjective.

Cost projections for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program declined $4.5 billion last year. File this under something you don't see every day. The total projected price for the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) ...

Astronomers love to point their telescopes at the Ring Nebula. Located 2,000 light years away in the constellation Lyra, this ring of glowing gas has a distinctive elliptical shape when seen from Earth. But new images ca...

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Google's acquisition of a kite power generator manufacturer suggests a strong future for the technology. Google has acquired a Bay Area technology company that generates power through wind turbines attached to robotic ki...

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A backpack-mounted camera system takes Google Street View service to the storied archipelago

We desperately need joined-up thinking by the world's leaders to secure future water supplies, say Charles Vörösmarty and Claudia Pahl-Wostl

These robotic bartenders can do everything from mix drinks to evaluate the quality of your wine

They do everything from mix drinks to evaluate the quality of your wine.

Anybody who claims to have solved all the problems in physics should consult some physicists before making a big song and dance about it, says Andrew Pontzen

Amateur observations have bested the Hubble telescope, shoring up the leading explanation for the process that lights up the most common type of black hole

Testing for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome has been frustrated, the Saudis say, by a patent granted to the Dutch discoverers of the new coronavirus

The same robots used by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan come to Brazil. Brazil has a big couple of years coming up: the FIFA World Cup and the pope are both coming to Brazil in 2014, and the summer 2016 Olympic G...

A Malaysian ground louse has a unique mating habit that may illuminate how sex evolved: the males attach an unusual packet of sperm to the females' bodies

A responsive radio could add localized, real-time weather updates, adjust background noise levels and more. BBC's Future Media North Lab has created a responsive radio that's capable of changing the broadcast you hear ba...

In the race for world domination, cockroaches have scored another point against Homo sapiens. Their weapons? A distaste for sugar and a helping hand from evolution

The adult brain is far more malleable that we thought, and so learning can be child's play if you know how. By David Robson (full text available to subscribers)

The immortality of James Bond, something nasty in the water, the healing power of words, and more (full text available to subscribers)