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You get an A+ in robot-hacking! Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard will teach Iranian teenagers how to hunt drones, according to reformist Iranian newspaper Etemaad daily and semi-official Fars news agency. Etemaad daily q...

In one of the top 10 eruptions yet seen on the small moon, Io has spewed molten rock that has spread across 31 square kilometres

A climate triple whammy meant that a chunk of ocean took a wrong turn in 2011 - so much water got locked in Australia that global sea levels plummeted

One of the leading voices in discussing technology and law chooses to "get off the Internet to the degree it's possible." Groklaw is one of our favorite blogs; it's a discussion and dissection of the intersection of tech...

Ever since China admitted to taking organs from executed prisoners, it has said it will end the practice. The latest announcement is met with scepticism

A growing number of researchers are looking to build hearts, like other organs, from biological tissue. Such hearts have the added benefit of using the patient's own tissue, reducing the chance of rejection. Researchers ...

The research group wants to develop machines with the capability for higher brain function. The Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, already has a lot of things on its wish list this year, but go ahead and add on...

"Everything about it would be bad," says Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago, beginning with your attempt to scoop it up. Despite the fact that white dwarfs are fairly common throughout the uni...

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And not hide in the woods? Is it possible to escape from everyday surveillance? Writing for New York Magazine and inspired by Edward Snowden's leak of the NSA PRISM program, Kevin Roose spent a day trying to answer that ...

Printed in bold, no-nonsense lettering across the cover, a recent issue of National Geographic proclaimed, "This Baby Will Live to Be 120." No question mark. The notion that impending medical discoveries may add years to...

Some vaccines seem to provide us with a host of extra benefits. Michael Brooks sees the cornerstone of modern medicine in a new light (full text available to subscribers)

The global scope of the internet has only made us more insular, but there is a solution, says Ethan Zuckerman in his new book Rewire

An international collaboration has succeeded in removing an unprecedented amount of nuclear material from a former Soviet test site in Kazakhstan

See abstract art created using paints made from the metallic run-off of polluted rivers in Ohio

For the first time, a set of proteins in the blood has been linked to suicidal behaviour, hinting that people who commit suicide share some biological traits