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Consider the following questions: Will robots help us to be more productive and creative or lazy and exploited? Will androids be greeted with open arms or a new kind of prejudice? How will humans be “human” when so m...

Cool E-Cig via Flickr This morning, the European Parliament, the legislative body of the European Union, voted to reject a proposal that electronic cigarettes or "e-cigs" be regulated as medical devices. The ruling, whic...

We've long suspected that swifts spend most of their lives on the wing ' now, a study suggests there's some truth to the idea     

A database that lists land deals between governments of developing countries and foreign firms appears to detail many more deals than really exist     

All the latest on newscientist.com: a ghost ship lost now in the Atlantic, Higgs Nobel, first malaria vaccine, tabletop fusion and more     

A satellite image of Greenland's southern tip shows the branching fjords that reach deep into the island's doomed ice-fields     

-- Cern, Zurich: publishing key discoveries -- Nobel physics prize spotlights Higgs boson, plus Drs. Higgs and Englert -- Higgs Boson Physicists Snag Nobel Prize -- Higgs boson, key to the universe, wins Nobel physics pr...

3D printed fibre optics can create curved displays that double as touchscreens – giving animated characters a new lease of life     

If you had learned in 1980 that the Postal Service was opening your letters (postage cost 15 cents) and skimming them for keywords in order to send you more relevant advertising flyers, you probably would have blown a ga...

This summer we heard about a 3-D printer for food developed with NASA funding, but we didn't have much to look at in the way of a prototype. Now, lo and behold, the printer has shown up at SXSW Eco, and we caught a short...

The first laser-driven device to spark fusion in boron plasma can double as an astrophysical lab for studying how particle crashes forge elements     

Peter Higgs and Francois Englert waited 48 years for their theory to be proven by experiment, and then a year more for the ultimate scientific seal of approval: the Nobel Prize. [More] --

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theory of how particles acquire mass, requiring the existence of the Higgs Boson , experimentally confirmed... --

$100 Bill Courtesy Department of the Treasury The $100 bill is the most widely circulated U.S. denomination abroad and, because it's almost universally accepted, the most counterfeited one outside our borders. A new Benj...

This year's Nobel prize in physics has gone to Peter Higgs and François Englert for developing the theory of how particles acquire mass     

Geneva 8 October 2013. CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel Prize in physics "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin ...

Englert and Higgs take it! In other news, water still wet, sky still blue. Just kidding, it could have gone to all sorts of other deserving people. Still, I don't think anyone was surprised. Peter Higgs doesn't know yet,...

Locking up bacteria in a life-supporting jelly is helping reveal more about their virulence and antibiotic resistance     

Most advanced trial in Africa shows vaccine halved malaria cases in toddlers and reduced them by a quarter in babies     

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) For cancer patients dealing with the pain of tumors that have spread to their bones, doctors typically recommend palliative radiation. Though studies have demonstrated that...

(The Optical Society) To gauge whether suspects involved in accidents or routine traffic stops have been driving drunk, police officers pair field sobriety tests with breathalyzers, which signal the presence of alcohol i...

(University of Arizona) A team of researchers led by UA assistant professor Vanessa Huxter has made the first detailed observation of how energy travels through diamonds that contain nitrogen-vacancy centers. The unexpec...