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Even viewed as abstractions the data have a forceful impact. In the whole of human history thus far, nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice. Sixty-eight years ago today an American B-29 bomber named Enola ...

Originally published: Aug 2 2013 - 11:00am, Inside Science News Service By: Charles Q. Choi, ISNS Contributor (ISNS) -- After a droplet falls onto a vat of vibrating liquid, what it does next could help solve fundamental...

Georgia Tech researchers recently unveiled a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa that would likely make the Renaissance master's jaw drop. At just 30 microns across, the image is 100,000 times smaller than the ...

I'll just add this to my wish list for now. Amazon today opened up a new subsection of the site: Amazon Art. And this isn't for dorm-room copies of that Pink Floyd poster with the naked ladies: Amazon is partnering with ...

-- New theory of general relativity casts doubt on dark matter -- CERN readies for next cosmic -- Hints of New Physics Detected in the LHC? -- Has LHCb spotted physics beyond the Standard Model? -- Better, faster, strong...

Analysing tweets for people complaining of stomach ache after eating out can be used to work out which restaurants might be less than spotlessly clean

All the latest on newscientist.com: how your dinner controls you, society's placebos, cultured meat, an ammonia-fuelled future, and more

Mark and Scott Kelly, identical twins who are also astronauts, have volunteered to be monitored while one is in space and the other stays on Earth

Some Japanese fisheries face a long-term threat from the steady trickle of radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

River blindness has been wiped out in Colombia by giving communities in disease hotspots an anti-parasitic drug every six months for 12 years

River blindness has been wiped out in Colombia by giving communities in disease hotspots an anti-parasitic drug every six months for 12 years

Diet isn't all about calories in and calories burned - new discoveries are showing that what you eat can have a surprising effect on your body and mind (full text available to subscribers)

A new bacteria testing kit has the potential to save millions of lives, one glass of water at a time.

A unique population in Finland has helped researchers to discover a single gene that may underlie schizophrenia, autism and other cognitive impairment

Meet a patient at the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital, which has more than 250 rooms devoted to falcons, and treats more than 7000 feathered patients a year

Ammonia made in a clean way promises to be the fuel we've been waiting for to kickstart a global green economy

The world is brimming with symbols, including national flags, which trigger a phenomenon akin to medicinal placebos, argues psychologist Nicholas Humphrey (full text available to subscribers)

"If you were a hotdog, would ya eat yourself?" That's Will Ferrell as Harry Caray contemplating some of life's deeper ethical questions. Here's another more realistic one, "If your ballpark burger were grown in a petri d...