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Some new games, old faces, and unexpected announcements from Microsoft's E3 press conference. Microsoft's unveiling of the Xbox One back in May was decidedly about the hardware. Almost right away today at E3, Microsoft a...

Bad at directions? This robot can navigate a building on its own. Massachusetts-based iRobot (the company that makes the Roomba!) announced today that it's planning to sell a "telepresence" robot starting early next year...

An art project reconstructs faces based on DNA picked up from the streets - can we legally keep our discarded genetics away from prying eyes?

How the data is presented is just as revealing as the data itself. How do the United States and China compare? The superpowers face off in this ambitious, if flawed, infographic from the Guardian. The infographic compare...

The US throws out 250 million tons of garbage a year. Roughly a third is recycled, and the rest is landfill. You might think that's a problem, but one man's trash is another's treasure. Oslo, Norway burns rubbish to powe...

Humans have an impressive ability to take on other viewpoints - it's crucial for a social species like ours. So why are some of us better at it than others? (full text available to subscribers)

NASA's Opportunity rover has found ancient aluminium-rich clays, which require neutral water to form, on the rim of Endeavour crater

In Arming Mother Nature, Jacob Darwin Hamblin argues that environmentalism is rooted in cold war plans to abuse nature for military ends

The Ivanpah solar power project is taking shape in the Mojave Desert and should eventually produce enough electricity to power 140,000 homes

The British unemployment rate is better than expected - but persistent worries about job loss are understandable, say Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter