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Remember watching Boston Dynamics' cheetah robot outrun Usain Bolt? Meet its little cousin, Cheetah-cub, built by EPFL's Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob). Being just a cub, it's no Usain Bolt, but Biorob believes it's the...

Training now for the jobs of the future A workshop in Nevada hopes to launch higher-education programs in drone studies. Working with both the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and University of Nevada-Reno, the unmanned ae...

Iron-sapping treatments and folate pills may be future health regimes for space travellers in the age of genomics

A 700,000-year-old bone from permafrost has yielded the oldest verbetrate genome, hinting that extinct polar creatures and hominins could be sequenced too

The ability to throw stones quickly and accurately may have been a crucial step in our evolution, because it allowed us to hunt big game

All the latest on newscientist.com: how elephants keep their cool, growing human spare organs in pigs, why riots spread like diseases, and more

All eyes on Earth! At this moment, dozens of government satellites are taking high-resolution pictures of the planet. But citizens get only limited services such as Google Earth, which provides imagery that's sometimes 1...

A painted map of the world on show in London next week combines the beauty of microscopy with the geography of disease

Self-serve robot locksmiths have arrived in New York City. It's 11 pm on a Saturday and you've locked yourself out of your house. You'll have to call a locksmith. Then you'll wait for him or her to come to your place... ...

Geneva, 26 June 2013. The second winner of Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN*, American sound sculptor, Bill Fontana**, begins his arts residency at CERN*** on 4 July 2013. Matching a great artist with a great scientist,...

New York's Museum of Food and Drink unveils its first exhibit, with a bang. In a borrowed warehouse space in Brooklyn, I witnessed last week the first test-firing of what will soon be the heart of the Breakfast Cereal ex...

Recent riots in places like Brazil and Turkey behave like a contagious disease - and conditions are perfect for their spread

Groundbreaking experiments are starting to make it possible to grow personalised organs in a host animal (full text available to subscribers)

Cass Sunstein, nudge inventor and former White House official, explains how his nudges have helped Americans save for retirement and eat better (full text available to subscribers)

The greenhouse effect occurs when Earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation because of the presence of certain gases, which causes temperatures to rise.

A rubber hand where your hand might be, plus the expectation that someone is about to touch it, is enough to trigger the famous rubber hand illusion