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Magnetic Microrobots It's like a magic elevator for medicine. Sangwon Kim, Famin Qiu, Samhwan Kim, Ali Ghanbari, Cheil Moon, Li Zhang, Bradley J. Nelson, Hongsoo Choi These tiny cages, each 100 microns long and 40 micron...

Rerouting important sensory nerves during a leg amputation has allowed a man to walk and climb stairs again using his robotic limb     

Of the 24 Fellows honored today with the MacArthur Foundation’s 2013 “genius” awards, about half labor on the frontlines of science and technology. One of those is Susan Murphy, a... --

This week on the podcast, we talk to Professor of Applied Mathematics Rainer Hollerbach, about how he and his colleagues at Leeds University think they have a solution for the Mystery of the Moving Magnetic Field. What's...

Astrophysicist Sara Seager MacArthur Foundation The MacArthur Foundation fellows, also known as the recipients of the coveted "genius" award, have just been announced. They are all, without exception, fascinating people ...

Fermilab physicists and educators mingled with young adult science enthusiasts at Adler After Dark. Last week, three young physicists looked expectantly at an audience filling an auditorium at the Adler Planetarium in Ch...

Using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, New Scientist has made a map of the stars that might host roughly Earth-sized, potentially habitable planets     

A 419-million-year-old fish with an exquisitely preserved set of jawbones is challenging the way we think about the evolution of modern skeletons - and sharks     

Before plate tectonics kicked in, our planet was a lot like Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, spewing lava through heat pipes that built our strong, rigid crust     

All the latest on newscientist.com: black hole blast that prehistoric humans saw, vive le carbon tax, grizzly cameraman, real-world Civilisation and more     

Reaper Drone Above Afghanistan This is uncontested airspace. At an Air Force conference near Washington DC this week, Air Force Gen. Mike Hostage claimed "Predators and Reapers are useless in a contested environment," an...

The idea of using a space umbrella to shade a telescope from an alien sun is back on the table - a mock-up was recently unfurled for the first time     

Some Spanish researchers were the first to turn mature cells into stem cells inside the body itself. They prompted the cells of adult mice to regain the ability to develop into any type of specialized cell, which is norm...

A model similar to the computer game Civilisation recreates human history and shows the importance of warfare in stabilising society     

Their startling closeness and rare perspective is thanks to Roggo's daring - and his waterproof camera, attached to a 9-metre-long pole     

The latest draft of the IPCC climate report says global warming is irreversible without schemes to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere     

They visited the moon, but letters to New Scientist reveal that two Apollo 8 astronauts feel their views were overlooked in naming lunar features     

From next year, the French government will tax transport fuels based on how much greenhouse gas they emit     

Astrophysicists find a new use for the video cards that give computer games that movie quality: crunching scientific data. Spurred less by "Eureka!" than by "There's got to be an easier way," a group of young physicists ...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Particles that deliver vaccines directly to mucosal surfaces could defend against many infectious diseases.

(Scripps Research Institute) Chemist Phil S. Baran of The Scripps Research Institute has won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes called a "genius grant."

(University of British Columbia) Oxygen appeared in the atmosphere up to 700 million years earlier than we previously thought, according to research published today in the journal Nature, raising new questions about the ...