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Autonomous war robots are coming. Panicking about them will only make things worse. Yesterday, a United Nations expert called for a halt and moratorium on developing "lethal autonomous robotics," or, in layman's terms, "...

The consequences of global warming are expected to be far-reaching, long-lasting and, in many cases, devastating.

Faults are categorized into three general groups based on the sense of slip or movement. Descriptions of the three types of faults that cause earthquakes.

-- Europe's Updated Particle Physics Plan Weighty With Global Implications -- Imaging Breakthrough: See Atomic Bonds Before and After Molecular Reaction -- Cutting-edge particle physics could bring cancer therapy home --...

A technique for making curved batteries and a heat sink made with one-atom-thick graphene provide clues to tiny applications ahead for the gadget maker

This Saturday night, June 1st, Singularity University and FOX Studios are putting on quite a show with an event titled 'Backstage Pass To The Future.' Located on the film set of 'Mulberry Street,' the event is part of th...

It's so pretty! Tennis is already one of the most high-tech, closely monitored sports in the world, from high-speed cameras that swoop around the court to digital refereeing that can see if a ball traveling at 150 miles ...

All the latest on newscientist.com: mining our moon, asteroid that has its own, personal clouds, why silent forests are bad news, and more

A skeleton from the wreck of the Mary Rose reveals the hard knocks of life aboard Henry VIII's greatest warship, which became the grave for 500 sailors

How to protect your house from an EF-5 tornado--and why FEMA doesn't recommend you even try. As with so many "is it possible" type questions, the answer of whether you can have a tornado-proof house is a resounding "well...

Despite their huge size, Florida manatees are hypersensitive creatures, navigating with the help of hairs that can sense water currents at the nanoscale

Palmer Luckey wasn't exactly a household name this time last year. He's a young guy from Long Beach, California, smart as a whip, and obsessed with virtual reality. After building a massive collection of the day's top vi...

Where tap water gets its flavor - and why one chef sees it as the key to making the perfect pizza dough.

Forty years on from Skylab's launch, we look back at how the space station taught us much about how humans perform in orbit and how to design future craft

A beaver has killed a man in Belarus, but despite this we should understand how the animal aids ecosystems, says the manager of Scotland's reintroduction trial

The power of liquid oxygen, excellent errors, SatNav for supper, and more (full text available to subscribers)

The first radar images of 1998 QE2, a 2.7-kilometre space rock due to swoop past Earth today, show that it is bringing an unexpected companion

A startup that lets you have your own cloud servers at home is part of a movement that is turning its back on conventional cloud computing

Many complex processes go on inside the human body every day.

Global warming is the gradual heating of Earth's surface, oceans and atmosphere.

Properties, sources and uses of the element palladium.