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Police tend to think that intuitive strategies are best for fighting crime, but they should be using research to discover what works - and what doesn't (full text available to subscribers)

A team of scientists have used a custom-made 3-D printer to create high-power microbatteries. Scientists at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have 3-D printed lithium-ion batteries as ...

Ignore the inevitable Google Glass comparisons, this is all Call of Duty. A new helmet design by Raytheon, exhibited at the Paris Air Show this week, wants to summon firepower from the sky with just a glance and a button...

The European Union should make it easier for its farmers to grow genetically modified crops, says the UK environment minister - we look at the state of play

Magic Story Maker sneakily replaces the text in children's book illustrations so you can read the news to your unassuming toddler. (Mwahaha...) Like puppies, kids are wildly energetic and easy to fool. My siblings once r...

As celebrities become more open about their mental health problems, stigma still ensures most people conceal such illnesses, say two researchers in the field

Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada's TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia, has been selected to become the next director of the ...

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Say bonjour and dia duit to a snail that hitched a ride with the Stone Age humans who migrated from the south of France to Ireland

A long-sought tetraquark may finally have surfaced, potentially providing insights into the make-up of the most exotic regions of the universe

If you are excited about emerging technologies and how they can solve some of the world's greatest challenges, strap in for an inside look at Singularity University, courtesy of Bloomberg TV. At the beginning of June, Si...

It's like a giant's whittling project. Look at this futuristic skyscraper design! Construction for it would dump less CO2 into the atmosphere than traditional steel construction! It'd be cheaper to build! It'd be made ou...

We can quickly learn to control an avatar in the form of an animal if our movements are mapped onto its digital representation

Test your knowledge of gravity with this thought experiment.

Revelations about governments' online snooping have been good news for Gabriel Weinberg, builder of DuckDuckGo - a search engine that doesn't track its users

A new kind of wormhole may resolve whether you'd be crushed or burned if you fell in a black hole, which could in turn lead to a theory of quantum gravity