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A new flexible robotic fish is the first soft robot with an onboard power source that can move its body at high speed     

A Panorama Filmed By A Drone This panorama was captured by a DJI Phantom, which is increasingly the Model T of home drones. Chensiyuan via Wikimedia Commons Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capt...

SpaceX announced it will delay Sunday's International Space Station commercial resupply mission as it "resolves remaining open issues." The SpaceX-3 resupply mission was rescheduled for March 30.

Passenger pigeons went extinct in 1914, but their legacy lives on in museum collections.

(Phys.org) --Among the taxidermal specimens in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, past centuries-old fur coats, arises a flicker of brilliant blue. This is the spangled cotinga. Surprisingly, the cotinga is about a...

Nevada's Hidden Cave -- an archaeological site with a 5,000-year history -- was recently vandalized with spray paint and bullet holes, and officials are offering a $1,000 reward for information that helps them catch the ...

The first sighting of the light spectacle on another planet reveals properties of the mysterious Venusian clouds --

Brushing and flossing your teeth can help maintain oral health, but eating certain foods is also good for you teeth. Here's a look at eight foods that may help keep your mouth healthy.

All the latest on newscientist.com: weird planets where life might lurk, how to lose a plane, GM crops in the UK, robot fish, vocal betrayal and more     

A drug that stops sodium getting into the blood could help people with kidney disease and other disorders meet the low sodium targets doctors recommend     

Remember when astronauts looked like astronauts? Now you can own a spacesuit just like the one Alan Shepherd wore when he became the first American in space     

Illustration by Son Of Alan A pacemaker's battery needs to be swapped out about every five to eight years, requiring surgery. Engineers are now working on a device that converts the mechanical energy of a beating heart i...

The biodiversity of the Sargasso Sea is now officially protected.

As anchor of National Geographic Channel's two hour special on March 14th, 2014 at 8pm EST, O'Brien will turn to astronauts Mike Massimino for color commentary on the ground while talking with Rick Mastracchio and Koichi...

An art installation at the Australian Synchrotron provides insight into experimental physics. A visitor to the National Centre for Synchrotron Science at the Australian Synchrotron might be forgiven for thinking she stum...

Daniel Goldman runs the CRAB (Complex Rheology and Biomechanics) Lab. He's worked with zebra-tailed lizards, wind scorpions, and fire ants, among others. Harold Daniels Daniel Goldman spends his days working with venomou...

There's no guarantee that sharing a home is the road to relationship bliss, but certain factors -- such as age, maturity and motivation -- make it more likely that cohabiting will work out.

(Phys.org) --Researchers working on the J-PARC project in Tokai, Japan are reporting slightly stronger neutrino detection occurring at night, due they say to changes that occur in flavor as the neutrinos pass through the...

We thought that the search for life on other planets meant finding Earth's twin. But now it looks like some bizarre worlds could still be fit for life (full text available to subscribers)     

A majority of hiring managers spend less than 30 seconds looking at your resume. The take away? Words matter.

People take less than a second to judge your personality - including attractiveness, dominance and trustworthiness - based on just your voice     

To get a head start on Pi Day (which is today, March 14), five synchronized aircraft wrote out the first few hundred digits in pi's infinite sequence in the sky over Austin.