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Originally published: Aug 22 2013 - 4:15pm, Inside Science News Service By: Benjamin Plackett, ISNS Contributor (ISNS) -- In recent years a new type of cigarette has begun to repopulate our restaurants, our subway trains...

Splish splash, stopping fire in its path This specially configured firefighting 747 supertanker can dump 20,500 gallons of water at once on a fire, before landing to refuel and reload. Helicopters can't carry as much (th...

It was just over a century ago that the Wright brothers developed a flying machine that lifted them into the air, which would evolve into today's safer-than-ever airline industry that saw 37.5 million business and leisur...

Time can now be divided into slivers hundreds of trillions of times smaller than a second - which allows us to detect how objects separated in height by just 1 centimetre might age differently

It was only a matter of time, really This is one of those ideas it's surprising we didn't hear about earlier: a Google Glass-controlled drone! (Come on, guys, Google Glass has been around for, what, four months?) But the...

All the latest on newscientist.com: six health myths to ignore, fresh interstellar travel plans, mind-altering drug helps heroin addiction, and more

A system that listens to the distinctive buzzing sound of drone propellers could one day measure air pollution and provide weather updates

The carved surface of this ostrich egg shows what is thought to be the oldest known map of the New World on a globe

Patented in 1862, the Gatling gun heralded a new age of violence. Yesterday in 1866, the U.S. Army adopted machine guns for the first time. Or, well, almost machine guns: the Gatling gun, first patented in 1862, wasn't f...

Although urban agriculture is on the rise nationwide, in locavore-loving San Francisco, some difficult challenges are emerging

Can our correspondent kick a long-term opiate habit by taking one dose of a hallucinogen?

The country's ruling Congress party plans to supply cheap grain to India's poorest citizens, but critics have described the move as "electioneering"

UN inspectors are in Syria, but they're still waiting for permission to examine the site of yesterday's alleged chemical attack - and time is running out

The Portuguese explorer opened up a direct route to India around the Cape of Good Hope.

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