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(NACE International) Northern Canada's permafrost and semi-permafrost environment poses a challenge for designing and building buried oil and gas pipelines. Natural Resource Canada researchers explored and evaluated the ...

The search for the Higgs at experiments at the Large Hadron Collider was an international effort involving thousands of people, with physicists and engineers from US institutions playing a significant role throughout. In...

The Magnificent Multitude of Beer Pop Chart Lab The artists at Pop Chart Lab, who've created gorgeous visualizations of everything from classic Nintendo games to bicycles, are tackling beer. A lot of beer. The Magnificen...

Last December, we visited two very cool companies at the intersection of high tech and art--Bot & Dolly and Autofuss. In an industrial space behind their café, Front, the two companies use robotic arms, software, and ca...

A black hole sprouting hair sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but this bizarre metaphor could open a window beyond the traditional picture of the universe     

Sometimes, a fancy new cutting tool just needs that special human touch. TWI, a British company with a long history of welding innovation, recently added a pistol grip to a 5-kilowatt industrial cutting tool. Scary as th...

Moon Jellyfish In southeastern Sweden, the three reactors that make up the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant provide about a 10th of the nation's total power. One of the three reactors is the largest of its type in the worl...

Roughly 800,000 "non-essential" government workers, including many key scientific and medical providers, are at home without pay     

Curiosity NASA [UPDATE: Hooray! Curiosity will keep running after all. Although a NASA spokesperson had said the rover would be moved into safe mode and stop gathering data, a spokesperson with the Jet Propulsion Laborat...

All the latest on newscientist.com: multiple personality disorder takedown, UK to recruit cyberwarriors, ovary boost brings baby, primordial ripples and more     

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As astronomers close in on the milestone of 1000 confirmed alien worlds, deciding when to award the title is proving troublesome     

The list of objects being 3D printed is impressive and grows by the day. Rocket parts, bionic ears, full buildings, food, meat and leather, and personalized prosthetics. As manufacturing goes, it could "revolutionize the...

The idea that sadistic childhood abuse could lead to multiple personality disorder has seized the public imagination, but could it be a diagnostic fad? (full text available to subscribers)     

Defence secretary Philip Hammond announced plans to hire an army of cyber-reservists that will help develop a "strike capability" for the first time     

As an alternative to the landfill, some companies now recycle contaminated rock shavings left over from drilling for natural gas.

From whizzy guides to funky apps, it's an exciting time for amateur and professional naturalists alike     

NASA’s premier gamma-ray space telescope may be changing tack in the coming months from an equal-opportunity scan of the whole sky to a pattern that prioritizes the center of our Milky Way... --

The highly caustic Lake Natron in Tanzania kills most animals unlucky enough to enter the water - and calcifies them     

(DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory) The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently issued a new report, "Non-Hardware ('Soft') Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commerci...

(TWAS) TWAS's Regional Offices have awarded their Regional Prizes this year to five researchers from different regions of the developing world who have worked creatively to popularize science. This year's winners are fro...

(Canadian Light Source, Inc.) Increasing the organic matter in soils is key to growing crops for numerous reasons, including increased water-holding capacity and improved tilth. Scientists have recently used the Canadian...