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Did a nuclear time bomb deep inside the young Earth tear the planet apart? The evidence could be staring down at us every night, says Stuart Clark (full text available to subscribers)

In short: a steep approach, short of the runway. After the crash of Asiana Flight 214 over the weekend at San Francisco International Airport killed two and injured 168, the independent Aviation Safety Network culled fli...

Would you have wanted Wimbledon coverage to show "error bars" around its Hawk-Eye replays? How sharp are Hawk-Eyes really? I'm talking about commercial systems, such as Hawk-Eye and GoalControl, that use cameras to recor...

The TSA is instagramming dangerous items confiscated in airports. Adorable!

Confiscations are better filtered in Valencia.

Buried beneath Antarctic ice for 15 million years, Lake Vostok may be home to diverse organisms - including animals, if new findings are to be believed

Cue freaked-out tourists. The classic beauty of the Eiffel Tower and Seine River draw scores of tourists to Paris. But do you know what would really spruce the place up? A full-size, chrome Tyrannosaurus rex sculpture, p...

The Boeing jet that crashed at San Francisco airport did so due to low airspeed. Was lack of training or over-reliance on automation to blame?

Over the years, it has become increasingly evident that Star Trek is a highly influential -- if not the most influential -- work in science fiction that has inspired generations of people to pursue science and technology...

A meeting on the threat from the MERS coronavirus has been called under a procedure used only once before - for the swine flu pandemic in 2009

The craft touched down in New York over the weekend after zipping across the States, but not without some technical difficulties. Since May, the solar-powered plane Solar Impulse has been on a cross-country trip across t...

New IVF tool that screens entire genome of embryos could increase the number of successful pregnancies, but will it usher in an era of designer babies?

A slew of books, ebooks, pamphlets and journals are tackling the crucial relationship between environmental crisis and financial meltdown. By Fred Pearce

Resembling a surreal futuristic city, this anechoic chamber plays a vital role in making sure that satellites deliver accurate environmental data

A clear contrast in immune response to TB between groups of African and Eurasian descent indicates that drug trials should take ethnicity into account

Portraying suicide bombers as psychologically normal is wrong and plays into the hands of their leaders, says criminal-justice researcher Adam Lankford

Most of what we think we know about sex trafficking is wrong, says Laura Agustín, who has spent 20 years investigating the sex industry