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Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form in the cosmos.

Earth's clouds got a little lower -- about one percent on average -- during the first decade of this century, finds a new NASA-funded university study based on NASA satellite data. The results have potential implications for future global climate.

We are in more danger from a flu pandemic than flu-related bioterrorism

To seek to present distorted science to the generation that will have to deal with the consequences of worsening climate change is deeply cynical

Syria's violence against civilians is being matched with online abuses as the government uses hacking and surveillance tools to track its people

The European Union is poised to label tar bitumen more polluting than other forms of oil. That would rule out selling it to Europe

Nanowires -- microscopic fibers that can be "grown" in the lab -- are a hot research topic today, with a variety of potential applications including light-emitting diodes and sensors. Now, researchers has found a way of precisely controlling the width and composition of these tiny strands as they grow, making it possible to grow complex structures that are optimally designed for particular applications.

A novel bacterium, thought to be a common inhabitant of the oral cavity, has the potential to cause serious disease if it enters the bloodstream, according to a new study.

Scientists have succeeded for the first time in simulating the dynamic behavior of strongly correlated individual atoms in solids. They were able to string atoms in so-called optical lattices and observe their dynamic behavior, which is determined by complex interactions with other atoms.

Advice to publish work on deadly flu contradicts a top US biosecurity panel – but New Scientist reveals that similar work has been published already

Pain? Just turn it off! It may sound like science fiction, but researchers have now succeeded in inhibiting pain-sensitive neurons on demand, in the laboratory. The crucial element in their strategy is a chemical sensor that acts as a light-sensitive switch.

Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new technology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon could create enough juice to make another call simply by touching it.

Colour-changing emergency pods, paint that repairs the structure beneath: Rachel Armstrong envisions a world enhanced by synthetic biology.

Watch an animation that calculates how you could propel yourself on a jet of vomit

Alain Touwaide is on a mission to unearth lost medicinal knowledge from ancient manuscripts (full text available to subscribers)

A conservative organisation is working to sow doubt in US classrooms on the science of climate change. Polls suggest it may not fall on deaf ears (full text available to subscribers)

Iononspheric disturbances and swelling rocks could both be used on to help sniff out covert nuclear weapons tests

It's well known that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, a swirl of stars in an extended, many-armed disk . But the structure of the galaxy is far from two-dimensional. Above and below those familiar spiral arms is a lesser-known feature, a spherical swarm of stars that makes up a halo around the disk.

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The makers of an appetite-sapping drug will this week take a second bite at the cherry of regulatory approval

A deadly strain of MRSA was born in livestock treated with antibiotics, strengthening the case for restricting the practice