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Using everyday language to program computers is an important first step towards empowering people who are not familiar with computer code

It's not just for trinkets - NASA has now used 3D printing to create a crucial part of a rocket engine

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Last year at the second annual Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Sessions (BAASICS), I was invited to give a brief presentation on any future-related topic I wished. As a Singularity Hub alum there w...

Two of the most unlikely climate allies have agreement on carbon dioxide, HFCs and vehicle emissions

Your dulcet tones affect everything from your sex appeal to your bank balance. But they can also wildly misrepresent you, finds Tiffany O'Callaghan (full text available to subscribers)

Bad news for blimp fans Airship development tends to come in waves, the most recent of which arrived in the mid-2000s. Facing two wars and a need for new surveillance and logistics craft, the Pentagon undertook a flurry ...

A proposal to make the Ross Sea - one of the last near-pristine ecosystems on Earth - into a marine protected area has been derailed by Russia

Restoring marshlands along the shore of San Francisco Bay may be the key to protecting communities from rising sea level and it may lend a helping hand to some endangered species, too.

Neutrinos are the most elusive particles having extremely weak interactions with all other particles. They have rather unusual properties and are even expected to be identical with their own antiparticles. So far this pr...

Updating live. Live streaming by Ustream According to the AP's Twitter feed, NASA has aborted a routine removal and replacement (R&R) spacewalk due to a "water leak in astronaut's' [sic] helmet." The two astronauts on th...

New UK government figures show how heavily animal research relies on mice, created with missing genes by a global industry

Qigong is an exercise and healing technique developed in China more than 4,000 years ago.