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Dirt-cheap bricks--just add pressure Bricks are fairly easy to make, but in the developing world, traditional fired bricks are sometimes weak and crumble-prone, while cement ones are often unaffordable. The Vermeer BP714...

Google's plan to become your entire web experience does, improbably, involve bananas. Today Google unveiled a new element of Google Search: you can ask it questions about nutrition, like "how many calories are in an avoc...

Archaeopteryx lost its place among the birds in 2011 - the discovery of an even older bird helps to restore the famous fossil to its perch

Imagine having an illuminated keypad projected onto your hand which stays in place even as you move, and tingles gently when you press a "button"

Continuing the quest to keep humans and explosions far, far away from each other The U.S. Navy has long used MH-53 Sea Dragon helicopters to find and detonate underwater mines, but those helicopters were first tested in ...

Gay-bashing? Psychological abuse? Religious indoctrination? There's an app for that. Setting Captives Free identifies as a non-denominational ministry which teaches the biblical principles of freedom in Jesus Christ." Re...

Data from NASA's Curiosity rover suggests that astronauts flying to the Red Planet and back would be hit by high levels of radiation

The palm forests of southern Brazil may look healthy, but they are losing the large birds and other animals that are vital for some trees to disperse their seeds

All the latest on newscientist.com: greening the desert, a man who needs to paralyse himself, a thermometer for the coldest thing in the universe, and more

A robot arm wrapped in a sensor-laden skin has shown it can work closely with humans on delicate tasks

Sean tried to break his own back because his limbs felt wrong. Can self-paralysing or amputation "cure" people who don't bond with parts of their body?

The 2013 hurricane season begins on June 1, and is expected to be a busier-than-average one. Stay tuned to this page for the latest updates as storms form through the end of the season on Nov. 30.

Only about two percent of the human genome contains genes. The other 98 percent has been likened to cosmology's dark matter that fills the space between stars - there's a lot of it, but nobody really know what it does.

China may only just have been admitted to the Arctic Council, but its plans for the region include shipping, oil prospecting and fishing

Easily visible from space, this huge structure still puzzles scientists

You may be walking on chimp-like feet without knowing it: at least 1 in 13 of us has feet that are specially adapted for climbing trees

A system that uses security cameras to map people's locations in real time could find intruders or guide people around malls

Brussels/Geneva, 30 May 2013. At a special meeting hosted by the European Commission in Brussels today, the CERN Council* formally adopted an update to the European strategy for particle physics. Since the original Europ...

The raw material for a 5300-year-old iron necklace bead found in an Egyptian tomb has revealed itself to have fallen to Earth in a meteorite

Here's a look at celebrities who live with chronic illnesses, and how they deal with their conditions.

From heart disease to diabetes, we count down the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States

For $1 million, private firm Planetary Resources will launch a space telescope and let its backers choose its targets - or take "space selfie" snapshots