Science News

The X-47B is a technological testbed, the failures of which teach researchers just as much as the successes. The X-47B autonomous aircraft made history last week, successfully landing on the aircraft carrier George H. W....

The vagus nerve underpins everything from your health and well-being to friendships and happiness, and you can think it into working better (full text available to subscribers)

In June, at the 2013 International AIDS Society conference, medical researchers made an extraordinary announcement. Two HIV positive cancer patients are HIV-free after undergoing bone marrow transplants. The patients hav...

A blob of bitumen that fell from a funnel at Trinity College Dublin is the first ever witnessed in one of the world's longest-running experiments

Rather than wars between groups, violence in early societies was most often due to personal clashes within the same society, a controversial study suggests

At least they aren't trying to drone global warming to death? The Central Intelligence Agency is joining with the National Air and Space Administration, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Oceanic and Atmo...

Video shows how a water-repelling surface and a magnet can split a drop of a liquid infused with magnetic nanoparticles into symmetrical arrangements

A look at sperm plugs used by chimps may help establish how the last common ancestor of chimps and humans mated

No, this isn't a city from orbit or raving microbes - it's a simulation of how galaxies and vast gas clouds affect the light from distant super-bright objects

UK government abolishes system for end-of-life care, saying that more research is needed to optimise care for people in their last hours of life

Not sure what to make of fracking? You can at least taste its effects at a miniature fracking rig drilling into a gallery floor in Liverpool, UK

The Cassini spacecraft is set to take a photo of Earth from Saturn. Prepare to wave - but first enjoy our recap of the best portraits of home from space

Thankfully, it's not for sale TrackingPoint, a company that combines gun tech and software to create super-accurate, easy-to-use rifles, announced yesterday it is developing a new system that would give regular people un...

Take your lens flair to the next level with a digital SLR camera attachment that lets you manipulate light like never before

Neanderthals have had a bad press, but with the first look at gene activity in their brains, their reputation is going from strength to strength

Deferring the decision on whether to impose plain packaging on cigarettes raises suspicions that the UK government has caved in to vested interests