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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... --

A team of scientists is working to develop a model for studying tissue -- specifically how it organizes into organs and layers during embryonic development. Their findings may have major implications for the study of tis...

A novel study has evaluated the reliability of different systems used by caregivers to assess toxicity for patients receiving radiation therapy.

Ten health care innovations, if brought to scale immediately in low-resource countries, could have the potential to save the lives of some 1.2 million mothers and children in 2015. Right now the annual global death toll ...

Many viruses and bacteria infect humans through mucosal surfaces, such as those in the lungs, gastrointestinal tract and reproductive tract. To help fight these pathogens, scientists are working on vaccines that can esta...

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...

A new method for visualising chromosomes is painting a truer picture of their shape, which is rarely like the X-shaped blob of DNA most of us are familiar with.

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...

New research shows that an individual's genomic makeup and diet interact to determine which microbes exist and how they act in the host intestine. The study was modeled in germ-free knockout mice to mimic a genetic condi...

Using a particular type of titanium dioxide -- a common ingredient in cosmetics, food products, toothpaste and sunscreen -- could reduce the potential health risks associated with the widely used compound.

Scientists are reporting an advance in smartphone-based imaging that could help physicians in far-flung and resource-limited locations monitor how well treatments for infections are working by detecting, for the first ti...

Researchers have developed a model that helps scientists and clinicians understand that complex interactions of a type of bacteria that is the leading cause of peptic ulcers. The discovery may inform changes in the ways ...

A new experimental approach to treating a type of brain cancer called medulloblastoma has been developed, and could lead to improved outcomes.

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     

Watch out, silicon: the first computer made from carbon nanotubes has finally crunched its first numbers     

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     

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