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A woman has given birth to a healthy baby boy who she conceived naturally after her ovarian tissue was extracted from her during her childhood, and frozen.

The air around us is a chaotic superhighway of molecules whizzing through space and constantly colliding with each other at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour. Such erratic molecular behavior is normal at ambient tempe...

Just as squids and octopuses can change colors in a flash, even portraying dynamic skin patterns, electronic camouflage suits could become a reality. Researchers have just created artificial squid skin that can change fr...

Autism and schizophrenia are related to different forms of creativity.   --

From Barack Obama to Kevin Spacey, cheap, controllable CGI models of famous people's faces can now be created in 3D using publicly available photos online (full text available to subscribers)

The air around us is a chaotic superhighway of molecules whizzing through space and constantly colliding with each other at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour. Such erratic molecular behavior is normal at ambient tempe...

Scientists look to the stars when it comes to developing clean, virtually limitless energy. Though humanity understands how stars power themselves--nuclei of hydrogen and its isotopes fuse together in extreme conditions,...

People who take certain drugs to lower their stomach acid may be at increased risk of having a heart attack, new research finds.

Dinosaurs were once thought to be the cold-blooded kings of the Mesozoic era. But new research on their growth rates suggests the prehistoric beasts grew just as fast as mammals, indicating they were warm-blooded creatur...

Rivers of neon, geysers of nitrogen, an oddly giant moon: the New Horizons probe promises revealing spectacles - and insights into deep solar system history (full text available to subscribers)

A highway upgrade turned into an archaeological discovery in Israel.

Technology developed by the University of Cincinnati and industry partners can do something that neither blinds nor existing smart windows can do. This patent-pending research, supported by the National Science Foundatio...

Global warming isn't going to help crops -- in fact, in most countries it will destroy them.

It's too late to stop the seas rising at least 5 metres and only fast, drastic action will avert a 20-metre rise, New Scientist calculates based on recent studies (full text available to subscribers)

Your birthday isn't just for horoscopes; it can predict your risk for disease.

An ill-fated pod of white-beaked dolphins fell prey to Svalbard polar bears, perhaps after they were drawn further north than usual by warm waters

For years, research on nuclear weapons has relied on old data, limited experiments and computer modeling. But this year, that pattern has changed. Scientists have run new experiments that simulate what happens to plutoni...

Noise may be a problem when fleets of delivery drones start operating in urban airspace. But a team from NASA has developed a way to silence them

Physicists are using LHC detector technology to retrieve Native American music from old recordings. Berkeley physicist Carl Haber listened in astonishment as the first notes of the 1950s hit “Goodnight Irene” played ...

The bank of the future will be in our pockets or on our wrists, not on street corners or housed in high-rise towers. Mobile banking is going viral, and the...

Warm weather and sunny days may make people think about skin cancer: A new study finds that people do more Google searches for the terms "skin cancer" and "melanoma" during the sun-soaked summer months than they do in ot...

Biomaterials Science is pleased to announce that the Organ-on-a-Chip World Congress & 3D-Printing will be held at Wyndham Boston Beacon Hill in Boston, USA on the 8th - 9th July 2015. Deadlines and dates Registration is ...