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Jumping Rope Ryan Snook This summer, government health officials in the United Kingdom made headlines by announcing that they will let scientists create babies with DNA from three different people. The procedure is a typ...

Robot Faces Georgia Tech Let's say you're getting a robot butler. (Congratulations on your purchase, future-dweller!) You can choose between three models for your new Jetsons-style Rosie robot: a clearly robotic machine,...

A new fertility treatment awakens dormant follicles in women who have stopped menstruating, with the first test resulting in the birth of a baby boy     

As the clock winds down toward a potential shutdown of the U.S. federal government, many observers doubt a deal will be struck in time. A shutdown would send at least 800,000 federal workers home temporarily until Congr...

-- Invigorated and unified, US particle-physics community considers future directions -- Particle 'Accelerator on a Chip' Uses Lasers Instead of Microwaves; Could Advance Science and Medicine -- Ukraine to become associa...

Orbital Sciences has docked a craft with the space station. Meanwhile a SpaceX rocket failed a reusability test – but could still help end an era of wasteful space flight     

Amid all the discussion of the details of the latest IPCC report, we must not forget the bottom line     

Astronauts Outside Aquarius Reef Base Mission 31 will use this reef base. NASA/Mark Widick, via Wikimedia Commons Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of legendary underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau, is planning an undersea e...

All the latest on newscientist.com: a new way to land on Mars, how we outgrow our gods, new science in IPCC report, cybercrime's professional elite and more     

Artist Chris Coleman rides the Denver Light Rail, and one day, started to record the train and its stations with a handheld 3-D scanner and laptop. (Sure. Why not. Probably a long ride.) He then digitally manipulated the...

The secret to a long life could lie with the naked mole-rat. This admittedly unsightly rodent is about the size of a mouse but lives about 10 times as long. Vera Gorbunova, a biologist at the University of Rochester, wan...

The technology used to create a new mini-accelerator could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science and medicine. In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science...

3D printers tend to blow up on Kickstarter. And one of the latest, the Peachy Printer, is no exception. The project's raised almost C$500,000, about ten times its original goal. Peachy is an innovative approach to 3D pri...

NASA is rebooting its Mars landings, thanks to a smart idea from the cold war era, and high-stakes rocket tests in the desert. Sally Adee looks on (full text available to subscribers)     

Space Scare Despite the risks, no mission has ever lost a space-walking astronaut. Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures In the film Gravity, which opens this month, two astronauts are on a spacewalk when an accident hurtles th...

As societies mature, many outgrow the need for a spiritual superbeing, argues Big Gods: How religion transformed cooperation and conflict     

Millions around the world, both scientists and non-scientists, use Scientific Linux, an operating system developed for particle physics. When a handful of developers at Fermilab modified a computer operating system for u...

The science of climate change has moved on a great deal in the six years since the last IPCC report. We break down the most important new findings     

Edward Snowden's leaks over mass digital spying are proving a rallying point for nations seeking to curb electronic surveillance of their citizens     

Astrophysicist and newly named MacArthur genius Sara Seager talks about her hunt for exotic new worlds, and draws links between parenting and science     

Brain differences distinguish night owls from morning larks, and could explain why those of us who prefer a late start are at greater risk of depression     

Cosmic threats, like the flare-up 2 million years ago of the Milky Way's black hole, are a reminder that humanity's survival is up to us