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Photons bounced off your waving arm might be in this image of the ringed planet, taken last week by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

-- Physicists call for €5bn Neutrino Factory -- Scientists 'may lose access to facilities after independence' -- Dark-Matter Hunt Appears to Be Zeroing In on a Leading Contender -- Fermilab's prized supermagnet arrives...

Defense Tech has an intriguing story about the next generation of aircraft carriers. One of the bigger innovations in the upcoming Ford-class of carriers: They're designed to carry drones, with a new, electricity-intensi...

By generating algorithms that prioritize where to send data, the computer outwits human solutions to network congestion. If you're reading this, you're probably using a version of the transmission control protocol, or TC...

The U.K. Prime Minister today proposed a sweeping set of internet filtering--some would say censorship--laws. They will go nowhere. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced this morning that "By the end of this year, ...

How two grade-school friends created Leap Motion, a company that wants to turn mouse-clicks into waves of the hand. David Holz took the main stage at this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conf...

New concept art imagines offshore wind farms with super-chic lofts for employees. This design concept by Bulgarian firm Morphocode predicts a future in which gigantic offshore wind turbines come equipped with fancy, futu...

Humans behind the wheel are easily distracted by tweets and Facebook updates. The answer? Let the car do the driving while you stay connected

Connor Levy is proof of concept. Barely two months old, Connor is the first child born from an embryo screened with next-generation DNA sequencing techniques to ensure that doctors provided his mother, Marybeth Scheidts,...

And help reduce CO2 emissions when you don't. Streetlights leave a huge carbon footprint. One potential solution is to treat them more like houselights: shut them off when we're not around. Tvilight, a smart streetlight ...

Curious goings-on at the heart of the atom may be pointing to a new force of nature (full text available to subscribers)

Prime Minister David Cameron wants network providers to protect kids by blocking adult material by default - but how it will work in practice is unclear

If your holiday takes you under dark skies, you might want a novel with astronomy at its heart: try The Movement of Stars, Equilateral or The Falling Sky

Artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel wants to create robots far more intelligent than humans

In-car connectivity that uses hands-free technology is an accident waiting to happen, warns Jeff Hecht