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Properties, sources and uses of the element plutonium.

The arguments against releasing genetically modified insects to control pests and diseases are old and tired     

We live in a lopsided universe: That has been a lesson that cosmologists have learned from examining the detailed structure of the radiation left over from the Big Bang. Now, two cosmologists show... --

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope has already made some impressive discoveries, with more on the horizon. The first scientist I meet at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (AL...

So you can play your games with its Steam service, but in your living room. There are two more announcements from the company coming this week. Valve, the gaming company behind titles like Portal and Half-Life, plus the ...

By scanning for the right signal millions of times a second, a new type of antenna promises to finally make GPS reliable in built-up areas     

After all the excitement surrounding the discovery of the Higgs, a new book called Beyond the God Particle asks where we go next     

All the latest on newscientist.com: gravitational ripples, the smell that conquers fear, how to leave the galaxy, peer-to-peer insurance, and more     

Smartphones that can record how firefighters behave when in a burning building can help them see where improvements could be made     

Three days into its Kickstarter, app developer Occipital had raised just under $600,000, or roughly six times its $100,000 goal--which was met in the first three hours. What's got early adopters and developers so excited...

Intel recently announced their newest line of chips, dubbed Quark, are a fifth the size and consume a tenth the power of Atom, their smallest low-power chip to date. Quark marks a shift, a few years in the making, from I...

The collisions of stars create ripples through the very fabric of the universe. Detect them and we could rewrite what we know about gravity, says Stuart Clark (full text available to subscribers)     

Schools across the country are offering courses where students learn how to stop malicious hackers. Step one: learn their ways. Imagine a world where security guards learn to be robbers first. The guards take a class whe...

A lethal virus epidemic is killing dolphins, and many more are likely to die. We explore the reasons behind the outbreak and what it means for conservation     

Clearing the common virus from the blood of immuno-suppressed people could prevent blindness and other serious illnesses     

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting telescope has always had an unsung talent for star physics on the side. Now that Kepler’s primary mission is compromised by broken reaction wheels on the... --

The scientific tools to explore the true richness of our mental lives are at last within reach     

A camera-trap photo captures the first documented case of a golden eagle attacking a deer     

(The JAMA Network Journals) Prenatal exposure to antiepileptic medications was associated with an increased risk of impaired fine motor skills (small muscle movements) in children at age six months, but breastfeeding by ...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Scientists have sequenced the genomes of nearly 6,900 organisms, but they know the functions of only about half of the protein-coding genes thus far discovered. Now a multidis...

(Terry Collins Assoc) To accelerate the national and regional development and manufacture of green energy products and businesses, Malaysia has partnered with Japan-based Asian Energy Investments Pte Ltd. in a $100 milli...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) For years, scientists have been trying to engineer cardiac tissue to patch up areas of the heart damaged by heart attacks. Now Tel Aviv University researchers have fabricated fib...