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It's shockingly, disturbingly easy for the government to snoop on your emails. Here are your weapons in the fight for your email privacy. Many of us had assumed our feeble Gmail passwords were secure enough to keep pryin...

It's an electric gun, boogie woogie woogie. This homemade gun uses electromagnetic coils to send steel rods flying at a speed of 138 feet per second. Pressing the trigger loads a steel rod into the barrel, where the firs...

Four million people laugh at the same cat in unison, probably. The Internet is so mind-bogglingly huge that it's tough to grasp exactly how gigantic it is. The site Every Second on the Internet breaks it down, counting o...

Children from low-income homes in the US - who tend to be fatter than their counterparts from wealthier families - have become slightly, but significantly, leaner

Plus a blob building, iconic photos redone like Instagrams, and more

Sandstorms can sweep up millions of tons of soil and send dust whirling away for thousands of miles. Although these storms seem enormously powerful, some of their strength actually derives from the tiniest of sources: th...

Rare photographs, casts of Lincoln's (giant) hands and more

All the latest on newscientist.com: artificial minds we can't understand, camels fingered with passing on MERS, panda sex, robotic plants, and more

There’s something about wandering the hills of Swaledale, or running your hands along an 700-year-old castle ruin in a small Yorkshire town, that puts a human lifespan into perspective. There were many moments during m...

400 famers stormed a government-owned field, destroying a genetically modified crop they fear will contaminate their crops and poison consumers

A new programming approach makes it easier for coders to wire up brain-like chips, opening the door to computers that can better sense their world

As Edinburgh Zoo knows, the endangered Chinese bears are reluctant to mate, but new research shows the males may just need some encouragement... and competition

-- "Beyond the Higgs Boson" --World's Physicists Search for Hidden Dimensions of Space and Time -- TRIUMF team signs $10-million deal with Indian scientists -- Detecting exotic heavy leptons at the large hadron collider ...

It's way too late for Vincent van Gogh, but cutting off your ear is a much less impressive gesture now you can get a new one printed

The U- and Y-series core processors can extend battery life by two hours, and keep devices moving faster than ever. In the world of chip design, there's one spec people typically care about most: speed. But as demand for...

The concepts and prototypes include a hand-powered washing machine, a landmine-removal kit, and more Each year, graduates from London's Royal College of Art--the U.K.'s preeminent art school--show off projects at the Sus...

Using good design for a better planet

A new system mimics the behaviour of roots and could help create robots that can adapt to many different facets of their environment

The smartphone that solves Rubik's cube, 100 per cent British chicken, the desk fan that isn't a fan until it's assembled, and more (full text available to subscribers)

A harrowing film about the plight of bees, More than Honey somehow manages to avoid a sting in the tail, with a near-happy ending and an important lesson

Antibodies to MERS, the deadly coronavirus that sprung up in the Middle East last year, have been identified in camels from Oman

Tying knots in a piece of string is an age-old way of remembering things. Now physicists have succeeded in tying and untying microscopic magnetic vortices that may lead to more efficient computer... --