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The virtual currency has reached a critical new stage in its evolution - and is about to become almost respectable

A report into why a British wind turbine exploded in 2011 has finally been released - new safety measures should mean such an event never happens again

A car can locate itself after a short drive using nothing more than crowdsourced maps and cameras

Let them eat smog! A pavement coating tested in the Netherlands could reduce air pollution almost half, claims a paper in the Journal of Hazardous Materials. Tested over the course of a year on a block in Hengelo, Nether...

The clearest ever view of how long a day is shows that Earth's spin has stuttered three times in the past decade

Space pictures reveal that the longest glacier in Antarctica has calved an iceberg the size of New York City after a huge crack split the ice shelf

IVF is inexorably opening the door to a future where parents can choose desirable traits in their children

Reducing video and audio time delays online lets band members who are thousands of miles apart rehearse or even perform together (full text available to subscribers)

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Your connectome, the map of all 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, is hopelessly complex. In fact, one human connectome has a staggering 10,000 times that number of neural pathways. Every thought you have and ev...

Insects could be the solution to an impending global food crisis, but not in the way you might think, says Sandrine Ceurstemont (full text available to subscribers)

The sun creates a shadow on cosmic ray detectors that varies with its magnetic activity and could lead to an early warning system for solar storms

We ask the experts how today's technology would've influenced the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War itself. Last week marked the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of ...

Tai chi is a self-defense and calisthenics technique developed in China centuries ago.

The Curiosity clone will directly seek out signs of past life and will collect rock samples, although it is unclear how they will be sent back to Earth

Magnetism is the phenomenon that arises from the force between objects that produce fields that attract or repel other objects.