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Company ended its wheat programme and destroyed all genetically modified material by 2005, so origin of Oregon wheat remains unknown

Delicious DIY sugarglop. Think of corn on a hot summer's day. Sweet, delicious, all-American corn. It's stuck in your teeth and you barely care, as your practiced jaw scrapes the pure taste of the season from the cob. No...

Motorized Legos fight under human or computer command. For better or worse, Legos haven't changed all that much since the company's founding back in 1932. But a partnership with Sony might change the classic bricks into ...

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"Hi Steve. This is Ray Kurzweil. I want to tell you about our future." With an opening like that, you know that the latest music video 'Singularity' from electro house musician Steve Aoki is going to deliver a thrill rid...

Our inner speech turns out to shape our thoughts and decisions in more ways than you might have imagined, says psychologist Charles Fernyhough (full text available to subscribers)

Some 800 scientists from 50 countries will meet for the 25th International Nuclear Physics Conference. The event is organised by the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Universities of Florence, Padua and Milan...

With neuroscience developing so fast, two books demonstrate the perils of putting too much or too little faith in brain scanners capturing human nature

Geneva/Linz, 3 June 2013. CERN* and Ars Electronica** today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN***. The winner will receive a fully funde...

Rather than continuing to bombard the world with pictures of tusks and animal carcasses, vibrant images like this remind us of what we still have

Rich countries banned deadly lead pigments years ago. So how come they export 28,000 tonnes a year to poorer countries, asks campaigner Perry Gottesfeld