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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured September 10th, 2014's X1.6-class flare and ensuing coronal mass ejection (CME).

Natasha Schüll is a cultural anthropologist who explores questions at the nexus of human-machine interaction, but she looks forward to the day when the hard and soft sciences can work together.

The world of car racing is about to go green. The first-ever racing series featuring only electric cars will begin this weekend in China.

Matt Rutherford, filmmaker and former producer of Charlie Rose, first met Salim Ismail at a birthday party in San Francisco. Over a beverage and some tech talk, the conversation turned to a new project Ismail was involve...

Good news for shark lovers: This weekend, new international laws will go into effect to strengthen protections for five shark species that are threatened by overfishing.

Ordinary people can commit atrocities simply by following orders, iconic 1960s experiments concluded - but this notion of the "banality of evil" is wrong (full text available to subscribers)

An earthquake that rattled remote parts of Alaska and northwestern Canada in July triggered an avalanche that spilled mounds of snow down a steep mountainside.

A Satanic mass planned in Oklahoma City this month has prompted protests, a lawsuit from the Catholic Church, and talk of laws against bloodletting. Such public images of fear are not uncommon regarding Satanist groups, ...

A new type of human stem cell, never seen in nature, should be better at making replacement organs than existing stem cells

NASA scientists practising for a future satellite mission chanced across a magnitude 6 earthquake rearranging Arctic terrain

Abandoned lots in cities may seem like a waste of space, but the ecosystem services they provide can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars

Finding the hubs and ships most likely to spread invaders could go a long way to stopping species from doing billions of dollars in damage

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: woman found with missing cerebellum, supermarkets driving deforestation, spongy ceramics, shark-eating Spinosaurus, and more

Dark energy's latest guise comes from the world of string theory, and could help bring our universe's chance of existing down to reasonable odds

Curiously large dust grains may contribute to development of bodies in space.   The Orion Nebula, courtesy of NASA Interstellar space can be a dusty place, filled with tiny flecks no bigger than a bacterial cell.But now...

While much of the media this week was obsessing over the latest gadget rollout from Apple, a handful of great stories made their way through the noise and showcase how technology is shifting the cultural fabric in surpri...

Archaeologists have uncovered the expertly crafted robes of two female stone statues standing guard at the entrance of a huge Macedonian tomb under excavation in Greece.

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics launches the 2014/2015 season of its renowned Public Lecture Series in October with a new twist - live, interactive webcast talks featuring some of the world's pre-eminent scie...

The High Flux Isotope Reactor, or HFIR, now in its 48th year of providing neutrons for research and isotope production at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been designated a Nuclear Historic L...

Performing high-resolution, high-sensitivity measurements of light and matter at the quantum limit requires extraordinary tools. Due to the difficulties of manipulating atoms with the necessary control, such measurements...

Switching the polarity of a magnet using an electric field (magnetoelectric memory [MEM] effect), can be a working principle of the next-generation technology for information processing and storage. Multiferroic material...

This paper makes a connection between the quantum group SLq(2), which described knots, and the elementary particles of the standard model. The elements of the fundamental (j = 1/2) representation of SLq(2) are interprete...