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Camel spiders are not spiders, and they don't eat camels -- or people. These arachnids became infamous after the Gulf War.

BigDog Walks In The Woods Technically named the LS3, for "Legged Squad Support System. Lance Cpl. M. L. Meier, USMC via Wikimedia Commons BigDog is a cinderblock-hurling robot that shambles like a something out of Lovecr...

Editor's Note: Excerpted with permission from “ Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality ”   by Edward Frenkel. Available from Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books... --

Barrier Reef Courtesy Catlin Seaview survey Last year, the Catlin Seaview Survey completed the most detailed picture of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Using underwater vehicles with 360-degree cameras, the survey's scie...

Menlo Park, Calif. -- In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology i...

A new report has outed a shadowy organisation called Hidden Lynx - a 100-strong group of expert hackers who are available for hire     

The sperm from two males are photographed battling for supremacy inside a female fruit fly's reproductive tract     

All the latest on newscientist.com: Earth without life – tomorrow, Google Glass good for your health, IPCC report, pop-up island, sperm war and more     

The words we use in our emails to one another can give an insight into who we are, and what our personality traits might be     

The May issue of National Geographic boldy states, "This Baby Will Live to Be 120 (and It's Not Just Hype)"; Pew Research published a poll on radical life extension in August; Google funded a new company, Calico, to tack...

Reusable, magnetic nanoparticles can remove crude oil from water. A boat wades through the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. image by Kris Krug, rights When 4.9 million barrels of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexic...

Living things have a huge influence on our planet. Earth without life would be very different place, finds Bob Holmes (full text available to subscribers)     

Every year, Ascension's land crabs descend from their mountain home to dump their eggs in the sea, but no one knows how the crabs colonised the island     

Huba Malgorzata Blachnicka and Michal Holcer Designers Malgorzata Blachnicka and Michal Holcer have come up with what looks like the perfect way for a rich person to hide from the IRS on tax evasion charges: a high-tech,...

Global warming is "unequivocal ." Sea levels are creeping up at the fastest rate in 2,000 years. Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have reached "levels unprecedented in at least... --

The experimental Google Glass headset has already inspired innovators to create applications that could bring big changes to healthcare (full text available to subscribers)     

The IPCC's climate report says that the most extreme scenarios of future warming are looking less likely – but this doesn't change the big picture     

Giving cellular powerhouses a jump-start grants old mice a new lease of life, improving their memory and exercise performance     

These solitary spiders like to hide in dark places in the house. Their bite is very venomous.

(Washington University in St. Louis) The slow rebound of the bedrock as ice melts can be used to weigh the Antarctic ice sheet and determine how much mass it has lost since the ice sheets reached their maximum extent mor...

(Brigham Young University) A joint BYU-Utah research team is developing a new breast cancer screening technique that has the potential to reduce false positives, and, possibly, minimize the need for invasive biopsies.The...

(Springer) In the fight against desertification, so-called straw checkerboard barriers (SCB) play a significant role. SCB consists of half -exposed criss-crossing rows of straws of wheat, rice, reeds, and other plants. T...