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Carbon emissions from US power stations in 2015 are set to drop to their lowest level for 20 years, as wind, solar and gas replace coal

The Fitbit Charge HR is an activity-and-sleep tracker with a built-in heart-rate sensor and a stopwatch feature for timing runs and other workouts.

A newly developed spectroscopy method is helping to clarify the poorly understood molecular process by which an anti-HIV drug induces lethal mutations in the virus's genetic material. The findings from the University of ...

The long-vanished Bouvier's red colobus monkey has been spotted again in a remote Congo forest.

Mathematicians draw inspiration from nature to work out complicated problems - and now a new technique is using virtual parasites to find the best solutions

Most of us can distinguish a million or more hues. A winding evolutionary path led to this amazing ability - and perhaps to our explosion of brainpower (full text available to subscribers)

A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system that can capture carbon dioxide emissions before they are vented into the atmosphere and then, powe...

The poop of people living in modernized countries differs from that of people who live in nonindustrialized countries in a key way, researchers say.

The color-shifting displays prevalent in nature could puzzle potential predators. Originally published: Apr 14 2015 - 7:15pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Ker Than, Contributor(Inside Science) -- The rainbow-hued shimm...

Exchanging gazes with dogs boosts levels of a bonding hormone in both them and us, suggesting they evolved to hijack a uniquely human way of bonding

Europe's nature reserves can now be monitored from above using lasers to build up intricate watercolour-like maps

In a recent study published in Optics Communications, scientists from Bar-Ilan University in Israel have presented a new technique that significantly reduces the halo effect that is generated when using multifocal (conta...

A little-known element called californium is making big waves in how scientists look at the periodic table.

Octopuses move with a simple elegance, but they have no rhythm, according to new research.

Despite its bilaterally symmetrical body, the octopus can crawl in any direction relative to its body orientation.

From the real effect fat has on your health to the best ways to burn it off, New Scientist looks at the science behind those love handles (full text available to subscribers)

A man in England went exploring with a metal detector and made the discovery of a lifetime: an exquisitely preserved Roman-era grave filled with artifacts, including bronze jugs, coins and hobnails from a pair of shoes, ...

A man with a metal detector happened upon a Roman-era grave while he was canvassing a field in a U.K. village located between London and Cambridge.

Ever wondered how the technology we use every day came into existence? Sure, an engineer designed it, a manufacturer produced it, and some savvy marketing helped sell you the product,...

MAKING fuel from the solar energy stored in living organisms by photosynthesis is a tempting idea. It sounds inherently green, and so biofuel schemes--ranging from fermenting starch, to recycling cooking oil, to turning ...

SCIENCE, popular prejudice often has it, is a man's world. These days that is not actually true of many disciplines, particularly biological ones. But some, though not all, recent research has suggested women are indeed ...

The evolutionarily unique frogs of Cameroon's Lake Oku have no tongues, claw-tipped toes and 12 full sets of chromosomes. What the Lake Oku clawed frogs (Xenopus longipes) don't have, however, is a... --