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The bird removed a pin, a screw and a bolt, before turning a wheel and releasing a latch - all to reach a nut

A year and a half ago virtual reality was yet an elusive technodream. It may still be, even today. But the Oculus Rift, VR's latest great hope, is winning over developers and newbies alike, accruing accolades, awards--an...

Using OpenStreetMaps, volunteers have brought free, much-needed collaborative maps to far-flung developing areas

With renewable electricity going global, New Scientist asks how it will affect you, and what you can do to help clean up your power supply

Green energy is growing faster than any other power source, and is poised to overtake gas within three years. Will it be enough to counter global warming? (full text available to subscribers)

All the latest on newscientist.com: solving the Tunguska mystery, rise of green power, transplants banish HIV, orang-utans hang out on the floor, and more

A super slow-motion camera has revealed that the Anna's hummingbird is the fastest mover and shaker of any animal with a backbone

A meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this year could finally help to explain what flattened millions of trees in 1908 (full text available to subscribers)

For DIY biohacker Rich Lee, earbud implants are about more than self-expression: they're also a matter of survival. Rich Lee, a 34 year-old salesman from St. George, Utah, and a self-described Grinder, recently had sound...

Adults in Wales will have their organs donated for transplant unless they opt out of a system put in place to increase organ availability by 25 per cent

There were once 5 billion passenger pigeons in the US, but hunting drove them to extinction in just decades. Could genetic techniques bring them back?

They may be adapted to swinging through the canopy but new observations suggest orang-utans are spending a surprising amount of time on the ground

Despite stopping antiretroviral drugs, two HIV-positive men from Boston are apparently free of the virus following bone-marrow transplants to treat cancer