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A mass experiment is under way to change your behaviour for the better. If it's working properly, you've probably barely noticed, says Graham Lawton (full text available to subscribers)

Last week, the airplanes of the future filled the sky over Paris. Here are our favorites.

The long-awaited move could help the country meet emissions targets and strengthen its standing in upcoming climate negotiations

Snowden, wherever he is, probably wants to avoid countries that have extradition treaties with the U.S. There's some confusion about where, exactly, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is right now. He was going to board a ...

It's no secret Google's building a high-tech portfolio beyond search, from self-driving cars to artificial intelligence. Out of the limelight, however, they're building something else entirely--a new campus at NASA Moffe...

Wheee! We've seen robots with wheels, robots with legs, and even robots with whegs. We've seen snakebots that use a creepy combination of undulation and grip to shimmy and swim. Now one research team has come up an innov...

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The $181-million IRIS space telescope will probe the region of the sun between the star's surface and the plasma layer that envelopes it

Construction in flood zones, slope deforestation and climate change mean devastating floods in India are likely to repeat

The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and internet traffic make things easy for the prying eyes of intelligence agencies

The Tokyo performance of android trio Z-Machines is only the latest proof of the considerable musical skills of robots

It is a freezing ideal that can never be reached, yet the mission to reach the coldest possible temperature has exposed many scientific marvels (full text available to subscribers)

Engineered to mimic a wetland, an innovative system at Oberlin College uses plants and microbes to recycle wastewater--a process that begins with a trip to the bathroom.

Solids can flow like fluids, given the right circumstances

Computers can rapidly check proofs, but to harness this incredible ability, mathematicians must start thinking more like machines

Don't like having your mind stealthily manipulated? That's just another cognitive bias. We should welcome governance based on behavioural insights

A device just a few square metres in size can churn out bursts of energetic positrons that rival ones made by huge accelerators

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle.

Unseasonably late snow followed by a heatwave: why is Alaska's weather behaving in such an extreme manner this year?