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All the technology in the world doesn't beat a knock on the door. New documents detail the sophisticated, if only partially successful, surveillance technology used to hunt and kill the most wanted terrorist on earth. Be...

A five-year trial shows it is better to give HIV-positive babies prompt drug treatment than to delay until health problems arise

Just like us, whales tan to protect themselves from powerful ultraviolet radiation - it is especially clear in migratory blue whales

Here are the options for military action against Assad. The United States and its allies are considering an attack against Syria's government. Such an attack is limited only by the people, aircraft, ships, and vehicles a...

All the latest on newscientist.com: hints of dark matter, how to implant a false memory, your dictionary brain, what poverty does to your mind and more

The brain has an uncanny ability to focus on one voice in a sea of chatter. Research on married couples shows that it may be down to familiarity of voice

A new species of epaulette shark, discovered in Indonesia, moves across the ocean floor like a salamander - is this how the first land animals walked?

Death and disability caused by both illicit drug use and mental health disorders has climbed significantly since 1990, finds biggest epidemiological survey

With more than a dozen experiments looking for it and some good theory to guide them, dark matter's days of obscurity may be numbered (full text available to subscribers)

If you burn about 80 calories per mile walked, you'd need two trillion PowerBars to fuel the trip. If you started just before the first dinosaurs appeared, you'd probably be finishing your hike just about now. Here's how...

Carbon nanotube networks fused with butterfly wings could be used to power microscopic photovoltaic cells or even to replicate DNA sequences

The great George Carlin was no Albert Einstein, but he was a comic genius Some physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are about to embark on a completely different sort of experiment. What they will discover today may r...

Earth may have become a watery world just 200 million years after it formed, making it a potential home for life hundreds of million years earlier than thought

The internet of things, strange road crossings, vegetarian razor blades, and more (full text available to subscribers)

Some poor people make poorer decisions because financial worry and all that goes with it reduces their mental bandwidth

Mark Zuckerberg's lofty ambition of bringing connectivity to the "next 5 billion" people is backed by big companies, but will it get off the ground?

Alchemy is the ancient practice of trying to turn lead into gold.