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One Bite To Change Songs Split via Kickstarter Say goodbye to getting wrapped up in miles of cord connecting your MP3 player to your headphones as you listen to music. These little earphones, named Split, make up a compl...

Virgin Shuttle Virgin Galactic Now that Bill Nye has been unfairly removed from the travesty of a television program Dancing With the Stars, there is a strange, science-y, reality TV show-shaped hole in my heart. But per...

BepiColombo stack ESA-Anneke Le Floc'h Europe and Japan are on a mission to Mercury. The BepiColombo mission is expected to launch in 2015, and arrive in Mercury by 2022. Carried in a vessel creatively dubbed the "compos...

Body Parts Don't worry--your remains won't end up in our magazine. No actual bodies were used in the making of this photograph. Sam Kaplan No computer simulation or dummy or animal can really convey the complexity of hum...

The teeth of the chiton mollusc are its answer to Wolverine's adamantium skeleton – they are made out of magnetite, the hardest material made by any organism     

The government shutdown was ironic from the moment it began -- It happened over the health care law, which started registration the moment the government shut down on Oct.1. The odd effects of the shutdown haven't ceased...

Dancers whirl and spin just metres away from where the Higgs was found. They're part of a contemporary dance work with a strong attraction, says Andew Purcell     

The tiny acorn-like beetle was discovered along with 11 fishes, six frogs, a snake, and several insects in one of Earth's most isolated natural havens     

It seems that xenon, a normally inert gas, can form chemical bonds with iron under the hot and heavy conditions in Earth's core     

Nanotube headphone It's roughly the size of a fingernail. Nano Lett Inside these earbuds, something big is happening on a very small scale. Set on a tiny lattice of silicon, electrified nanotubes of carbon are rapidly wa...

Imagine printing out a paper computer and tearing off a corner to share - ink laced with silver nanoparticles could make it a reality, to the joy of hobbyists     

Last February, at Singularity University's FutureMed, I talked to Dr. Peter Diamandis about medical tricorders and mining asteroids, got a guided tour of a surgical robot from Dr. Catherine Mohr (head of research for Int...

Grand Theft Auto V lets players kill and be killed with no comeback, but a new breed of games uses open-ended social interactions to explore moral choices     

The discovery of huge temples thousands of years older than agriculture suggests that culture arose from spiritual hunger, not full bellies, says David Robson (full text available to subscribers)     

After first promising it as early as 2009, Samsung said recently that it will introduce a curved-screen smartphone in the coming months. Few details are available, but at a recent demo at the Computer Electronics Show, S...

Buried in an earthquake and cooked in the resulting fire, one of the oldest brains ever found may help open a window on the health of ancient people     

Software like openPDS acts as a bodyguard for your personal data when apps - or even governments - come snooping     

Climate models and the latest IPCC data reveal four possible futures for global population, economy and environment at the end of this century     

Shake your pasta to uncover why some buildings collapse during earthquakes

Geneva 3 October 2013. CERN* Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr. Kostyantyn Ivanovych Gryschenko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine today signed a document admitting Ukraine to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratifica...

This year a bank robber stole £1.3 million without touching a penny. Today's master criminals are swapping shotguns for software – here's how they do it     

Accelerator physicists at SLAC have manipulated electron bunches to generate twisted light. Scientists at SLAC have found a new method of creating beams of twisted light--light that spirals around a central axis, all of ...