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Inserting circuits of synthetic DNA into cells means we can control their development - and could allow us to create enhanced organs (full text available to subscribers)

Private space company Final Frontier Design shows off the latest orbital fashion. Final Frontier Design, a Brooklyn, NY-based space company, unveiled their new "3G" space suit yesterday on Capitol Hill. The company's pre...

An ultrathin foil loaded with circuits promises virtually imperceptible medical sensors and flexible artificial skin for robots

A new U.S. Army project could make threat detection much more practical. The Army may have a new radar-carrying, unmanned blimp by 2017. Made by Raytheon, the Pentagonese-named Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense El...

The rules of quantum mechanics may extend to much larger objects than we thought - and this may have practical uses

More meteorites have crashed into Earth than you expect, probably This interactive infographic, from designer Sebastian Sadowski, charts 100 years of meteorites, mapping them by where they fell and when. You can explore ...

Next up: ATM PINs. A team of engineers attending next week's Black Hat hacking conference created R2B2, the incredibly patient Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher. The 'bot punches four-digit combinations at a rate of a...

Tracking peahens' gaze has revealed how much they rate peacocks advertising themselves with their tails: the peahens simply don't pay that much attention

The genetic circuit that gives some worms regenerative powers has been discovered and tweaked to pass on that skill to other worms

The beautifully preserved tail of a duck-billed dinosaur has been discovered in Mexico, the first of its kind to be found there

They aim to determine whether 3-D printed firearms present a real threat--and whether they can use the weapons for their own purposes. German federal police forces are getting into the 3-D printing business. Responding t...

The US Department of Defense has a good reason to fund research in advanced bionic limbs--in fact, it has a couple thousand good reasons. In the last thirteen years, 2,000 men and women have lost a limb in military servi...

Meet the 100-passenger plane that'll keep your flight running on time. Aircraft design is often overlooked in discussions of the FAA's multibillion-dollar NextGen initiative, the elaborate mélange of satellite-based gui...

At up to 15 metres long, the necks of one group of dinosaurs grew six times as long as those of any other land animal. Now we know how, says Jeff Hecht (full text available to subscribers)

A wave of blue fluorescence spreads through a flatworm in its final hours, revealing the chemical trail of death - but the mechanism is a surprise

Cameras, guitars, RC aircraft and more! One survey of the 3-D printing landscape will quickly show you that it's brimming with novelty items and useless junk. But don't let that overwhelm you! We sorted through the clutt...

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The deforestation rate in central Africa was down by a third in the decade to 2010 compared to the previous 10 years, but the trend may have reversed since

Melting could release 50 billion tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, costing the world the equivalent of almost a year's global GDP