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The solarclave could sterilize medical devices in areas without reliable electricity. Though the steam-generating autoclave has long been the standard method of sterilizing medical equipment, this could change with the s...

Boston Dynamics' latest 'bot doesn't fall down easily. Boston Dynamics, makers of some of the coolest, most terrifying robots around, have already showed off prototypes of their humanoid Atlas robot, but we haven't quite...

The Harold Washington Library's new Maker Lab is free and open to the public. Get making! 3-D printing may be the way of the future, but for the average Joe, actually getting ahold of a 3-D printer to use on the cheap re...

Yesterday, a robot made history. The X-47B, an experimental drone that flies itself, landed on the aircraft carrier U.S.S George H.W. Bush. Why is that a big deal? Because landing on an aircraft carrier is hard. Both the...

It's about time! Only about 5 percent of people wash their hands correctly. According to the same study, 15 percent of men and 7 percent of women don't even wash their hands at all. Which, gross, you guys. Is the problem...

All the latest on newscientist.com: how our behaviour obeys quantum logic, why 1978 was the best year ever, musical argon, high-tech piano keys, and more

New Century Global Centre in Chengdu, China, is big enough to eat 20 Sydney Opera Houses with room for dessert

"Planet HD 189733b is blue, and there's nothing I can do" - not quite the David Bowie lyric, but it sums up the first exoplanet to have its colour studied

"Planet HD 189733b is blue, and there's nothing I can do" - not quite the David Bowie lyric, but it sums up the first exoplanet to have its colour studied

It could fit 20 Sydney Opera Houses inside it and has its own artificial sun. The New Century Global Center, a behemoth Chinese officials are calling the world's largest standalone building, has finally opened in Chengdu...

In my last blog, we got a chance to meet learning expert Jim Kwik and explored some of the ideas behind SuperheroYou, which is the Kwik-founded open-source community/university devoted to accelerated learning and brain o...

Confronted with a predator, a group of twospot astyanax fish will attack one of their number to leave it vulnerable

Applying the rules of quantum mechanics to psychology and economics can help us understand the brain and how people make decisions, two physicists argue (full text available to subscribers)

Geneva, 11 July 2013. CERN* and EUROVISION** are awarding grants to two production companies to develop multiplatform media proposals to spark the scientific curiosity of "tweens" - children aged eight to twelve.

Discover how an Ohio artist is repurposing runoff from coalmines to create a variety of rich paint pigments--and draw attention to the state's polluted waterways.

The decades-long struggle to redefine seven basic units of measurement may look pointless but is vital for scientific progress

For many sufferers, gluten intolerance may originate in the mind, not the body. But that's nothing to be ashamed of, says philosopher Alan Levinovitz

A new piano keyboard uses sensors similar to those in smartphone touchscreens to let pianists create vibrato and other effects with their fingers

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's high-school romance, the first test-tube baby and Pluto's moon are only some of the events that made 1978 a year to remember

Grease was the word. It was fun to stay at the YMCA. Global prosperity and well-being peaked in 1978 - and has been going downhill since

The UN says insects are the food of the future, but the West isn't ready to make them a staple - and squeamishness is the least of the problems

The first images of our star's strange tail come from a NASA probe studying the bubble of plasma created as the sun ploughs through interstellar gas