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The science video blog Veritasium offers this nifty little puzzle. Does a wooden block, when shot by a vertically aimed rifle, go higher when it’s hit dead center or off-center? In the latter... --

On 6 September, NASA plans to send a vacuum cleaner to the Moon. Called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), the orbiter will collect dust and gas molecules to figure out what... --

Stemming the radioactive leak at Fukushima with a wall of ice will cost $320 million and use enough power to run 3300 Japanese households     

Jurassic Park versus the Batcave     

Social networking makes it easier than ever to compare yourself with others--but forget about vanity. It's not uncommon to hear Facebookers complain many of their social contacts appear to be living vastly more interesti...

Grey wagtails don't take kindly to strangers – and one even wants to take on its own reflection in a car's wing mirror     

We're more than the product of our genes and environment, twin studies show. If we could run our lives over and over, we'd turn out differently every time (full text available to subscribers)     

In the search for greater efficiency, green builders are looking to nature for answers.

Tonight, as the sun sinks below the horizon, the world's most powerful digital camera will once again turn its gleaming eye skyward. Tonight, and for hundreds of nights over the next five years, a team of physicists and ...

The Pentagon has many tools to eliminate stockpiles of chemical agents – but any attempt will be risky, and possibly too difficult to carry out     

Forget passwords. The Nymi wristband proves your identity by listening to your heartbeat's unique rhythm     

Asia-Pacific High Energy Physics Panel (AsiaHEP) and Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA) have jointly issued a statement that the International Linear Collider (ILC) is the most promising electron positron col...

If schemes to extract gas from icy cages beneath the oceans are successful, don't be surprised to hear scare stories from people with vested interests