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For the first time in a decade, the top 10 happiest countries in the world are all in Latin America, according to the 2014 Gallup Positive Experience Index.

With camera traps, wild animals have no more secrets.

Paraguay is the happiest country in the world, according to a 2014 Gallup poll of people in 143 countries.

A NASA scientist says California must ration water and monitor groundwater use as severe drought continues

Experimental food company Lick Me I'm Delicious has created an Edible Mist Machine based on ultrasonic vaporization tech. Using a straw, tasters can sample more than 200 flavors of edible mist.

Public shaming can force institutions to change their ways, finds Jennifer Jacquet - while Jon Ronson explores how it can lead to mob rule on the internet

Repeatedly training the brain to get better at specific tasks can boost attention levels in daily life, finds an analysis of a pool of 12 previous studies

Mathlete sees clearly with this physics life hack A simple trick can help you see clearly  - with physics!Age has not been kind to my eyesight or my memory. That means that while I now need glasses to correct for the fa...

All the latest on newscientist.com: a world without chickens, solar eclipse pictures, lifelogging in the womb, bulked up Andromeda galaxy, and more

Amazon got approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to test its much-hyped Prime Air delivery drones in the United States. But this might not be the news Amazon had hoped for.

Unusual jet stream activity and an early spring melt have been blamed for the lowest winter record of Arctic sea ice

Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on his iconic killer-robot role in July's "Terminator Genisys." While no Skynet-like AI has sent red-eyed robots after humanity, the prospect of weaponized AI has gotten much more likely since...

Randomly generated passwords are the most secure, but hardest to remember. Now a tool that combs works of literature can generate more memorable alternatives

A potentially gruesome subject, the uterus of a pregnant pony with a fetus sticking out, shines in a beautiful photograph that snagged first place in the Wellcome Image Awards this year.

A belt that can monitor a developing baby's heartbeat, sleep and motion 24/7 could allow doctors to monitor high-risk pregnancies without hospitalising women

Engineers have started the last step required before sending protons all the way around the renovated Large Hadron Collider. All systems are go! The the Large Hadron Collider’s operations team has started running the a...

An exotic physical effect based on the attraction among three particles has a similar universality to that of common two-body interactions, Yusuke Horinouchi from the University of Tokyo and Masahito Ueda from the RIKEN ...

The 'standard model' of physics is currently our best description of elementary particles and their interactions. Yet experimental results sometimes differ from the model's predictions, tantalizingly suggesting that more...

A new fertility treatment claims it can help rejuvenate aging eggs, but does the science back that up?

Nature Communications has published a study in which ICFO researchers have been able to demonstrate, for the first time, the generation of isolated attosecond pulses at the water window. This achievement permits tracking...

Huge colonies of marine invertebrates known as pyrosomes may coordinate their jet-like propulsion system by flashing lights at each other

Huge colonies of marine invertebrates known as pyrosomes may coordinate their jet-like propulsion system by flashing lights at each other