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Specialised tools dating back 50,000 years indicate that Neanderthals may have created polished bone implements in Europe and showed us how it's done

We ask a lot of 18-year-old students. Upon entering college, students weigh advice and expectations from parents, teachers, and administrators when choosing a major to study for the next few years. On top of that, they'r...

The "Do-Nothing Machine" was a solar-powered ode to originality and wonder. Husband-and-wife duo Charles and Ray Eames were two of the most influential designers of the 20th century, making progress in fields as diverse ...

The Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot is also pretty good at pool. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab created the Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot, a 3-D printed insectoid 'bot t...

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With the row over fracking reaching the UK, leading climate scientists are warning that its ability to combat climate change might be illusory

Sci-fi films have a long history of speculating what the future might be like, seeking to understand what remnants of humanity will continue on when the world may undergo drastic change. More realistic projections focus ...

Who gets to say when unproven therapies can be offered to desperate people? To some, it's a matter of life or death, finds Peter Aldhous (full text available to subscribers)

Art's effect on science isn't always clear, shows Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom by Finn Aaserud and J. L. Heilbron

Zaatari refugee camp has grown from almost nothing to a population of more than 140,000 in a year, as refugees pour in from neighbouring Syria

Cancer screening too often leads to scare diagnoses and unnecessary treatments. It's time to rethink our approach, says cancer specialist Laura Esserman

A sport whose sole aim is to cause brain damage to another person is not a "noble art". It has no place in a civilised society, says neuroscientist John Hardy

Engineering is often inspired by nature--the hooks in velcro or dermal denticles in sharkskin swimsuits. Then there's Darpa's SyNAPSE, a collaboration of researchers at IBM, XX, and XX universities. Not content with curr...