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One man's sacrifice has revealed how his cancer mutated from its emergence to its last lethal change, opening the door to a Darwinian approach to therapy (full text available to subscribers)

Can virtual reality mimic nature's restorative properties? It seems that simulated green spaces can have surprising health benefits (full text available to subscribers)

Palmer Luckey, the man driving the renaissance of virtual reality, started out with only his passion

Evolutionary biology could help us outmanoeuvre the enormous genetic variation found within each tumour

A new model bridges the gap between the cold, empty universe after inflation and the dense, hot soup that gave rise to all matter

Virtual reality is rising from the dead thanks to a start-up with global ambitions and crowdfunded technology to back them. Pleased to meet you, Oculus Rift

Warning: do not attempt to use these pieces to fly. You cannot fly. Click to launch the gallery. Last week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, designer Melinda Looi presented what's being billed as Asia's first 3-D-printed fashio...

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Apart from the obligatory first-person shooters, the first wave of games made for a new virtual reality headset lets you explore imaginary worlds

A rubidium atom is at the heart of a tiny light switch, providing a new way to probe the divide between the quantum and classical realms (full text available to subscribers)

Heavy "gloop" that allows mole rats to slip through tight spaces may also protect them from cancer

Here's how In a recent PopularScience.com post, contributing writer Kelsey Atherton suggests that Edward Snowden is at no risk from a U.S. drone strike in Hong Kong because of Chinese air defenses and the risk of collate...

Geneva, 19 June 2013. The ISOLTRAP collaboration[1] has measured the mass of exotic calcium nuclei using a new instrument installed at the ISOLDE facility at CERN[2]. The measurements, published on 20 June in the journal...

Is it a plane? Is it a car? Well, so far, a flying car prototype is the best answer--and a late one at that. Massachusetts firm, Terrafugia, has been promising delivery of the Transition for almost four years. The latest...

Last month, the office supply chain, Staples, joined the world of 3D printing. Adding to the momentum? Amazon is in too. Or at least that's the story.vThe online retailer launched a new department offering 3D printers ($...

Blame the wedges! Robot battling was poised to become a true sport of the future. It had all the right elements: mad science, gladiatorial combat, plucky garage inventors, and televised action. So what killed it? A bruta...

Extreme weather called for extreme remedies to staunch the flow of the river Elbe in Germany on Sunday

A new video game designed by computer scientists and ecologists is poised to shed light on the best way to manage biofuel farms.

For the first time in modern history, the world has been producing more farmed fish than farmed beef. It's not good news for the environment