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A surprise lurking in old Hubble pictures, the small rock raises questions about how it survived the chaos thought to have created Neptune's other moons

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Pants, dropped! What's the best way to convince millenials to get their suits drycleaned? No one knows, but Philadelphia's Manayunk Cleaners is trying drones. The drone is a modified DJI Phantom quadcopter, which is a co...

The acoustic innovator and founder of the Bose Corporation died Friday. This is the story of how his insatiable curiosity helped launch a better future. "Better Living Through Curiosity," by Tom Clynes, originally appear...

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Much prettier than a Twitter timeline. To commemorate the launch of 4G services in the UK, artist Brendan Dawes was commissioned to create these beautiful "digital portraits" of 11 cities. Really they're more like "socia...

Stepping into a child's body makes you incorporate the thoughts and feelings of a child too

Stepping into a child's body makes you incorporate the thoughts and feelings of a child too

We now know why people who carry one version of the FTO gene are more likely to be obese than those who carry another

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With two of the fastest-ever 100-metre runners, Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, failing drug tests, poorly labelled dietary supplements may be to blame

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The device would benefit the military, the disabled, doctors, and maybe even you! Three researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, including one of the co-creators of Google Glass, are working to develop a new p...

The story of our evolution seemed clear. But a string of recent discoveries in Africa is forcing us to radically rethink it (full text available to subscribers)

Aww. Come here, little guy. Robot spider! Sounds terrifying. But the T8--an octopod 'bot made from 3-D printed parts--is actually charming. For your viewing pleasure, watch it dance like a drunk high-school kid. The comp...

The way we reproduce may have unexpected consequences for the future of humanity, suggests biological anthropologist Robert Martin in How We Do It

Shot by a shadow tracker, this image of our star will help explain why the sun's upper atmosphere is so hot

In the wake of a startling report highlighting the US's poor health compared with other wealthy nations, its study director Laudan Aron searches for answers

Online learning is the biggest shake-up of education since the advent of the printing press, says Anant Agarwal, an MIT computing specialist