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An alternative way to access emails, tweets and texts uses a projector disguised as a necklace or brooch to interact with your digital life     

On the heels of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's impassioned warning that climate change is pushing our planet towards it's tipping point, Bill Nye and Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn went head-to-head on NB...

Winter storms, especially in North America and Europe, seem nearly endless these days. After one marches through and dumps its freight, another is just a few paces behind. What's worse, the bitter winter weather we're ex...

Plop living, swimming bacteria into a novel water-based, nontoxic liquid crystal and a new physics takes over. The dynamic interaction of the bacteria with the liquid crystal creates a novel form of soft matter: living l...

The amount of heat generated by sea ice melting and the associated decrease in albedo is equivalent to roughly 25 percent of the average global warming currently occurring due to increased carbon dioxide levels, the team...

New insights into one of the molecular mechanisms behind light harvesting, the process that enables photosynthetic organisms to thrive, even as weather conditions change from full sunlight to deep cloud cover, will be pr...

CAPTCHA Wikimedia Commons Say good-bye to CAPTCHA, the boxes of warped text that separate humans from bots online. AI company Vicarious claims to have developed an algorithm that can pass the test about 90 percent of the...

Boys with high levels of cortisol and depressive symptoms have a high risk of developing depression. This could be prevented if they can be identified     

Simple sponges can live with 200 times less oxygen than present atmospheric levels, supporting the idea that animals evolved before oxygen-rich oceans     

Step inside a cave of ice that hasn't been accessible since 1999 – now open to visitors brave enough to trek across the frozen surface of Lake Superior     

Scientists from the FOM Foundation and Delft University of Technology have manipulated a quantum particle, merely by looking at it in a smart way. By adjusting the strength of their measurement according to earlier measu...

All the latest on newscientist.com: hunt for the sea unicorn, a fishing rod for brain tumours, prostate cancer test, huge maths proof and more     

You may have regrets after Valentine's Day, but be open to understanding why.

The Irish company Experior Medical aims to make doctors better readers of diagnostic X-ray films by giving them real-world practice on the go on their iPads.

Bike booster Courtesy FlyKly Who wants to be a sweaty mess after biking to work? "No one," is the answer FlyKly is banking on. The start-up has created an electrified rear wheel that can retrofit onto almost any bike. Pe...

With its spiralled horn and elusive ways, the narwhal is a thing of legend. Isabelle Groc joins an expedition braving Arctic waters to meet it face to tusk     

More than 99.9% of the mass of any atom is concentrated into a quadrillionth of its volume, the part occupied by the nucleus. Unimaginably small, dense and energetic, atomic nuclei are governed by laws quite distinct fro...

The excellent Ten Thousand Birds takes us from the obsessive bird collectors of Darwin's time to the fully fledged scientists of today     

(Phys.org) --Anyone who has ever owned a car in a snowy town - or a boat in a salty sea - can tell you just how expensive corrosion can be.

(Phys.org) --Quantum mechanics offers the potential for creating communication technologies with an inherently higher security level than today's classical technologies. Using quantum digital signatures (QDS), for exampl...

Having a Democratic president is linked with a reduction in U.S. infant mortality rates, according to a controversial new study.

(Phys.org) --University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip.