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The stretchy speaker is the first to use ions in place of electronics - it could be used to build noise-cancelling windows or music-making smartphone screens

A new project aims to teach robots how to work alongside humans. These eyeball-y robots, created by a consortium of European researchers, are designed to learn how to navigate dynamic human environments without running i...

Here's how it works. Since their debut 13 years ago, in-car night-vision systems, which identify pedestrians approaching a roadway, have arguably made driving safer. But they come with a pretty big blind spot: animals. E...

Using a network of vehicle sensors - and "evolutionary algorithms" - to rejig traffic could one day get emergency responders on the scene faster

Our galaxy's central black hole is a fussbudget, refusing to eat most of what it pulls to its lips because the food is too hot

Dek Array The Batcave! Because the World's Greatest Detective needs a lab, for analyzing blood samples and also for metaphysical brooding. Science cred: Believable, in some ways. A supercomputer that can globally monitor...

Don't you want that kid to break free of his 2-D Skype chat? In an interview with the BBC, a Microsoft executive described as the corporate vice-president for Skype confirmed that Microsoft is working on 3-D chatting for...

At almost twice the length of the Grand Canyon, the enormous channel was a gushing river before Greenland froze over

Endangered whooping cranes learn way home by following older, wiser leader and don't just rely on inner GPS

Everything you ever wanted to know about this retro-'90s weapon, which the Obama administration might use against Syria's government. The Obama administration is considering what sort of military action to take, if any, ...

A new analysis of the links between definitions of English words has uncovered structures that may resemble how our brains represent language

Two bunnies were recently born glowing green. They're not radioactive--they carry jellyfish genes. If you've never read about animals genetically modified to glow, this may sound bizarre, edgy, sci-fi. It's not. Scientis...

In Mars's Gale Crater, Curiosity breaks free of its human shackles. The rover Curiosity, our best friend on Mars, has always had the ability to pilot itself around its new home. But for its first year away from Earth, it...

"Hurricane Marco Rubio ravages the East Coast." Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana eight years ago today, killing at least 1,836 people. Now, a group of activists wants to know: Why place that morbid association on the peop...

Say goodbye to a howler monkey as it disappears into the boa constrictor that has just killed it - the first time anyone has documented such an attack

Your neurons are whirring with movement like clockwork. Understanding how it works may give us a new way to tinker with the brain, says Anil Ananthaswamy (full text available to subscribers)

A dairy farm in British Colombia uses new technologies to convert manure into electricity, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and remove the stink.

Mars, but not Earth, contained the right elements at the right time to create life's precursor - and this primordial soup was devoid of water

When Kazakhstan's Central Reference Laboratory opens in September 2015, the $102-million project laboratory will serve as a Central Asian way station for a global war on dangerous disease. In 1992, Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov,...

Arsenic from rocks can get into drinking water if wells are sunk in the wrong place. A survey has highlighted areas of China in danger of contamination

Much like Shazam, which can identify unknown songs, a new app can recognise a species from a sample of its call

Thirty atoms of the elusive element were created, bolstering previous, more modest manifestations - they could unlock the secrets of superheavy atoms