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Sarcasm may be called the lowest form of wit, but it still exercises psychologists, linguists and computer scientists hoping to build automatic irony detectors (full text available to subscribers)

A network of ultra-precise atomic clocks could be kept in sync with the spooky property of entanglement, creating the first truly global time stamp

I recently attended the MIT Technology Review Digital Summit in San Francisco. The topics du jour? The disappearing computer interface, the Internet of Things, and security and privacy in our hyperconnected world. The ov...

An ocean inside the Earth and a paralyzed man kicks off the World Cup -- just the beginning of the cool stories in Science this week.

(The Earth Institute at Columbia University) In a new study in Nature Geoscience, researchers find evidence of widespread refreezing of ice at the bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet; some of these features coincide with f...