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The new frontier in finance? Perseus Telecom, a network provider that specializes in rapid trading, is seriously looking into an ultra-high-speed transatlantic trading line, made possible by balloons and microwave transm...

The Supreme Court's decision on DNA patents paves the way for cheaper diagnostic tests, but it could have unintended consequences elsewhere

Legislators try to solve a gun problem that doesn't yet exist Two bills in New York City aim to keep 3-D printed guns off the streets. The first bill, introduced by a New York City councilman Lewis Fidler (D-Brooklyn), l...

Ancient DNA sequences are being probed to reveal origins of devastating human plagues

Stomach muscles have evolved at least twice - once in the earliest land animals, and once in a ferocious armour-plated fish

The most comprehensive assessment of animals' vulnerability to global warming reveals a big proportion of species are in danger

All the latest on newscientist.com: how Earth got its oxygen, how to keep the NSA out of your business, inside a hospital for dangerous minds, and more

My favorite thing about Jason Silva? His ability to formulate, encapsulate, and prescribe, over the counter, the awe this particular epoch of human evolution can and should engender. Whatever pills he's taking, I want so...

Watching live video of your body with a halo effect flashing in sync with your heartbeat can make you feel you are where the video shows your body to be

For if you're just really into expressing yourself through clothing. Have you ever felt your clothing just doesn't say enough about you? As in, you're willing to go to semi-obsessive lengths to show everyone your thought...

Geneva 13 June 2013. CERN[1] and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics[2] today inaugurated the Hungarian data centre in Budapest, marking the completion of the facility hosting the extension for CERN computing resource...

A thermometer that measures the temperature change in one molecule of a circuit could help realise the dream of ultra-small electronic gadgets

In Earth's youth, photosynthetic life forms thrived for a billion years without producing so much as a whiff of oxygen. So why did some start pumping it out? (full text available to subscribers)

The evolution of resistant pests should be a warning - if we don't cultivate genetically modified crops properly, they'll stop working

Helen Thomson meets murderers in Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital and learns how neuroscience is directing their treatment

Revelations about government snooping show just how much they know about us. But there are ways to opt out

If the latest models are to be believed, Earth isn't in the midst of the sun's Goldlilocks zone, but on the brink of becoming Venus

An international team of astronomers from Taiwan, England, and Japan has used the Subaru Telescope to measure the distribution of dark matter in fifty galaxy clusters and found that its density gradually decreases from t...