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Which leaves us with the important question: Could an X-ray weapon actually work? On Wednesday, the New York Times reported the curious case of Glendon Scott Crawford, a man with Ku Klux Klan connections who wanted to bu...

Some had dismissed the unknown script in a mysterious 15th-century illustrated text as gibberish, but statistical analysis indicates it could be a cipher

Do it, weirdo. At what appear to be the Taiwanese equivalent of the coffee kiosk at a 7/11, coffee drinkers can get something they can't get at any of the finest third-wave coffee shops in all of Seattle, Brooklyn, Chica...

EVENT: Move of 50-foot diameter, 14-ton superconducting electromagnet ring from Brookhaven Lab to Smith Point Marina using a custom-built heavy-haul trailer and support fixture. Rolling roadblocks and detours on William ...

Helping cabbages maintain their circadian rhythms after they have been picked could preserve their anti-cancer properties

-- Moving a $25 Million Magnet Without Moving it an Inch -- TRIUMF's Director Nigel S. Lockyer Tapped to Head Major U.S. Particle-Physics Laboratory -- Four Quarks Good, Two Quarks Bad: Scientists Detect New Kind of Suba...

All the latest on newscientist.com: the Great Unconformity, virtual reality explorers and dancers, seizures that bring orgasmic pleasure, and more

Dancers interact with 3D virtual stage sets and images in a new show in Paris

The all-volunteer Copenhagen Suborbitals will launch their Sapphire rocket from the Baltic Sea on Sunday. They aim to eventually send a human into space. On June 23, at 4:00 a.m. EST, the Denmark-based Copenhagen Suborbi...

If Cisco and iRobot have their way, robot CEOs may invade boardrooms from Tokyo to New York to London in 2014. iRobot and Cisco recently announced collaboration on the autonomous Ava 500 telepresence robot for business. ...

Sodium-based batteries containing wood could be the ideal replacement for lithium-based rechargeables, which are expensive to use on a large scale

When they plunge beneath the surface of the ocean, long-finned pilot whales like having someone else close by

New treadmill-like devices will let people walk in virtual reality - but a few extra tricks can make them feel even more immersed

Construction crews are starting work on the largest dam removal project in California history.

Shifting opinions on genetically modified crops in Europe will require more than government-led conversation, says policy communication researcher Matthew Nisbet

Each time Sandra had a seizure, she felt an overwhelming sense of "orgasmic" pleasure - a feeling of clarity and bliss

Hamster research by a dog, dog food not eaten by animals and a chemical weapons invoice (full text available to subscribers)