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We want to know: Can it launch a vertical take-off and landing fighter? Japan yesterday unveiled the largest ship in its fleet since World War II. The 19,500-ton Izumo can carry up to 14 helicopters. Because Japan's cons...

Mining tweets for illness-related complaints can tell us what restaurants to avoid when. Twitter isn't as much a micro-blogging site anymore as it is a data pool. It can tell us what's happening during an emergency, how ...

One of the largest telescopes ever made will reveal previously unobservable facets of our universe's past. The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be one of the largest telescopes ever made, and will allow scientists to ...

A new report on the city of Aleppo shows where the damage has hit--and it's anything but evenly distributed. How do you document a war zone without putting even more lives at risk? One way is to observe from a distance, ...

Can't find your wallet? Ask the search engine FindMyStuff and it will use a system of remote sensors to check behind the sofa for you

For the first time, twin microsatellites will let budget-conscious people on Earth design and program their own space experiments

iCub robot demonstrates that intelligent behaviour can spontaneously develop if we build machines based on living brains (full text available to subscribers)

Researchers will have access to the infamous HeLa genome if they are approved by a committee and they credit Lacks and her family in published material

All the latest on newscientist.com: lava lab, Hajj cough, how poor sleep makes you hungry, jumping crystals, bats and more

The grey long-eared bat looks striking, but researchers are sounding the alarm for its survival as a species

A remarkable experiment is taking on the most powerful force of nature. Will we ever control the destructive flow of molten rock? (full text available to subscribers)

The first study to track viral infection over an entire pilgrimage to Mecca sheds light on the Hajj cough - and how the deadly MERS virus might spread

Powered by atoms rearranging themselves in response to light, the jumping crystals could be put to work in tiny mechanical systems

A forgotten experiment with ammonia could point the way to zero-carbon energy