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Sometimes digital communication just can't cut it, says Jacob Aron - time to bring the pneumatic tube networks out of retirement (full text available to subscribers)

Elon Musk, billionaire founder of PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX, is in the news again and this time his innovative mind must have been working overtime. He introduced his concept of the Hyperloop this week, a pneumatic-like ...

The finding that autism may shape male and female brains differently suggests that one controversial view of the condition needs rethinking

I am waiting for my first pizza bomb but the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration just won't get out of the way. I read about it on the Internet - an enterprising Domino's franchisee in the U.K. who was experimenting usi...

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An inserted section of microRNA could prevent modified influenza viruses from infecting people if they ever escaped from the lab

All the latest on newscientist.com: antique pneumatic messaging, Elon Musk's futuristic pneumatic train, autism, antimatter, and more

An amateur photographer uses this composite image to show how the brightest meteor shower of the year appears to fall from one constellation

Artist Rachel Evans uses simple tools to make stunning geometric maps. Artist Rachel Evans uses spirographs, those geometric drawing tools popular with kids, to create colorful world maps like this. After drawing the sha...

In A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri reveals the remarkable human stories that explain how we filled the gaps in the periodic table

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, says a system of pods inside depressurised tubes could whisk commuters between San Francisco and Los Angeles in half an hour

Physicists find God particle! That has become a common headline since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva began turning out data. Researchers have been more cautious and have completely... --

An optical illusion can hide an object from our consciousness, but hearing its name helps us see it, revealing deep links between vision and language

Patients are right to question government control of their body parts. It's time for a shake-up

Spending 120 days in a locked habitat, a crew of six showed how to make a long space mission more palatable using a non-perishable pantry

Musk has announced details of his mysterious high-speed transportation project. There was some of what we expected, and a few surprises, too. SpaceX/Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has unveiled details on the Hyperloop, h...