In 1979, we thought we knew that the solar system beyond Earth was a cold, dead place. Then Voyager I found Io seething in the blackness
One could be forgiven for thinking a new era of nuclear energy is under way in the US. On Mar 11, 2013, crews at the Virgil C Summer power plant in South Carolina completed a 51-hour marathon of pouring concrete and three days later, in Burke County GA, another concrete base was completed. The two reactors that will sit on these bases will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, and each will add more than 1,100 MW of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017--without emitting carbon dioxide.
The sleeve comes equipped with accelerometers that sit on the wearer's biceps, forearm, and back of the hand and monitors their arm as they tack a shot at the basket
Skylar Tibbits , the head of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab, envisions a future in which manufacturing means putting all the parts in one place – then shaking until they come together themselves.
An artificial intelligence program that understands the meaning of words has scored as high as a human 4-year-old in a test of verbal IQ
Each year millions of tonnes of coal are burned inadvertently in underground fires that rage out of control all over the world
This image of the eastern US taken from the International Space Station shows that when the sun goes down, the Big Apple is far from alone in keeping the lights on
The dirty, back-breaking work of pulling riches from the Earth is slowly but surely being taken over by machines
An asteroid 300 metres in diameter has marched in lockstep with our planet for years, hidden in the pre-dawn twilight
Early in our plant's history, volcanoes stopped spewing out lava for around 250 million years
Stealthy paternity and infidelity testing is on the rise, and the law is struggling to keep up – New Scientist investigates
If our reporter's DNA is vulnerable, then so is yours. New Scientist investigates an alarming new threat to genetic privacy
