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Self-repairing fabric, leather grown from microbes, and more You've probably seen water-repellant textiles where droplets of water miraculously bubble upon contact with the fabric. You may even own a pair of moisture-wic...

Rather than being the densest object in the Kuiper belt, the icy object Quaoar, named for a Native American god, may simply be an egg-shaped version of its neighbours

Australia looks good in purple. By playing with the Google Maps API, Kim Asendorf put together this randomly-generating series: every time you click refresh, a new, weird map of the world pops up. You might get a day-glo...

Have a tiny apartment, city-dweller? You will want a tiny vacuum for cleaning up tiny messes. Sir James Dyson, Inventor General of all the gadgets you didn't realize you needed, has just released this child-sized vacuum ...

Hacker Barnaby Jack, perhaps best known for discovering insecurities in pacemakers that could be exploited with fatal results, has died in San Francisco, Reuters reports. He was 35. His death comes just a week before he ...

There's no new consensus that climate is less sensitive to atmospheric CO2 than previously thought, despite claims that the IPCC now thinks otherwise

Teenagers of the future, split apart by warring families, could be reunited in wormholes, thanks to a new theory of quantum gravity

Pie in the sky A Shanghai company is using drones to deliver cakes. According to the Shanghai Daily, Incake Company delivered cakes by flying robot, then suspended the service after police officials complained that the d...

A zebrafish's heart has a striking ability to regenerate - and to look good in a prizewinning image for an annual cardiac research photography contest

The legendary computer scientist and codebreaker may finally get a posthumous pardon. It's just dust and posturing, says a modern-day pioneer

There's a slim chance the Kepler spacecraft's malfunctioning wheels can be fixed - if not, it could switch to finding out more about known exoplanets

Darwin's theory of natural selection is so powerful that we can find it hard to believe features can arise in other ways, says biologist John Bonner (full text available to subscribers)

Plus: Super Mario mashed up with René Magritte, portraits made from Hubble Space Telescope pictures, and more

Sleek, high-tech bases are springing up all over the Antarctic, offering comforts that early explorers could never have dreamed of

A new theory of quantum gravity says the universe may get its structure from quantum entanglement, which also fills the cosmos with wormholes (full text available to subscribers)

Grow some sneakers, how long is an hour? time-travelling toilets and more (full text available to subscribers)