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Surface-bound Citibikes are so last week. Hey, cyclists: why are you still bicycling on asphalt like chumps when there's this (totally safe-looking, not at all super-dangerous) flying bicycle? Just kidding! You're not al...

The smallest galaxy known, Segue 2, is either an impossible runt or a battered companion of the Milky Way

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Prevent your bike from being stolen by keeping it in a batcave basically In most cities, being a cyclist means you will have your vehicle stolen and/or vandalized on a semi-regular basis. That's just how it works. But in...

These long-lived, large windstorms are difficult to predict.

Our government wins in espionage, but not in PowerPoint. Luckily for the NSA, there's the Internet. After news broke of PRISM, the government's secret surveillance program, everyone recoiled in horror: first, at the conf...

Two major objections to installing a software update - that you have to stop running the program and the fear that the update will introduce bugs - could soon be removed

Shave off the very tip of your finger or toe and it should grow back. Now we know how. It's all got to do with some very special cells beneath your nails

All the latest on newscientist.com: goodbye to Goldilocks, super-pests beating GM crops, US carbon emissions turn down, and more

The debate over internet and phone surveillance should be conducted in the open, not the shadows

Next time, members of Congress should make sure to ask for a briefing about a program they have no reason to believe even exists. "Every member of Congress has been briefed on this program," said President Obama last wee...

The time for innovation is now! The 2013 Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University is officially kicking off with the Opening Ceremonies on June 17. The event is being held at the Computer History Museum in Moun...

Images from a pinhead-sized sample of a glacier corpse's brain shows evidence of his final, deadly fight

A group of resourceful doctors at the University of Michigan used 3D printing technology to give a young man a stint for his weakened trachea. Without the stint the boy's prognosis was to never leave the hospital - and t...

Urban development is impeding the ability of native wetlands to serve as natural filters, but efforts are underway in some places to reverse the damage.

From life's point of view, Earth sits in the solar system's sweet spot. But new calculations suggest it is teetering on the brink of a solar roasting (full text available to subscribers)

How do you move a 50-foot-wide, circular electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece without flexing or twisting it? Very, very carefully. On Sunday, June 16, the electromagnet will begin its 3,200...

Tokyo, Geneva, Chicago - 12 June 2013. A five-volume report containing the blueprint for a future particle physics project, the International Linear Collider (ILC), was published today. In three consecutive ceremonies in...

Five of 13 key pests can now eat crops genetically engineered to kill them - but it's not too late to raise our game (full text available to subscribers)

The latest figures on carbon dioxide emissions suggest US emissions are still falling, while China's emissions growth is also in decline

The next generation of programming languages will put computation directly into the hands of people who can use it best (full text available to subscribers)

Properties, sources and uses of the element tin.