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Even a small portion of the comprehensive Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations is crammed full of science. About a month ago, the Lawrence Livermore lab posted this gorgeous old poster of the electromagnetic spectrum onto...

How leaf-cutter ants and fungus gardens could provide the model for sustainably producing biofuels.

Pigeon House Tuur Van Balen Shooting clay pigeons is a popular U.S. sport, appealing to everyone from President Obama on down. In Pennsylvania, the thrill of shooting flying clay out of the air isn't enough for everyone....

Google Search Screenshot Google announced today that about a month ago, the company issued a major update to their main search algorithm. It's called Hummingbird, and it reportedly affects 90 percent of searches worldwid...

San Francisco design studio Bot & Dolly created this demonstration of what is almost certainly sorcery a projection mapping system. The project's simply called "Box," and without ruining too much, the studio projects ima...

Smell A Rat? Oskila via Wikimedia Commons In Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the Netherlands, rats are more than just scurrying subway pests. They're trained crime fighters. The Dutch police have begun training rat...

Human activity is slicing up forests worldwide, and it seems the resulting "islands" of vegetation can go into ecological meltdown much faster than thought     

The major earthquake that struck Pakistan on Tuesday appears to have spawned a muddy mound off the coast     

All the latest on newscientist.com: why space has exactly three dimensions, first carbon nanotube computer, fish oils and brainpower, and more     

A sensor previously used for military operations can now be tuned to secretly locate and record any single conversation on a busy street     

Being a small child, I often think to myself: What if the Star Wars spaceships got into a fight with the ships from Star Troopers? Thanks to this infographic from DeviantART user Dirk Loechel, I finally have an inkling o...

Artichoke and parmesan salad or chicken's foot soup? Jacob Aron attends a bizarre banquet to find out what happens when betrayal and trust set the menu     

Using fractal-based algorithms that break an object down into a long, foldable chain, we can now 3D print and assemble items larger than the printer itself     

Swirling ocean currents are mathematically like black holes – and could slow polar thawing by carrying warm water away     

NANOTUBES--tiny, hollow cylinders of carbon--have long been a product seeking an application. They are harder than diamond and dozens of times stronger than steel. Make them one way and they will conduct electricity like...

The ranger's here FOR decades, rangers in Yellowstone National Park, in the American West, had to cull the area's red deer (known locally as elk, though they bear no resemblance to European elk, known locally as moose) b...

THE Soviet Union in 1961. The United States in 1962. China in 2003. It took a long time for a taikonaut to join the list of cosmonauts and astronauts who have gone into orbit around Earth and (in a few cases) ventured be...

A CANCER, put simply, is a gang of rogue cells multiplying out of control. But each gang is different, so "cancer" is actually a term that embraces hundreds of specific ailments propelled by an even larger number of gene...

No news is often good news. AIDS has dropped out of the headlines in recent years, and that is because, in the battle between virus and people, people are winning.This year's report by UNAIDS, the United Nations agency c...

The explanation of one of reality's greatest mysteries could lie in physics we already know (full text available to subscribers)     

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The lack of evidence on firearms violence can, ironically, be turned to the advantage of gun control advocates if they get their story straight