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The robot can course at 22 kilometers per hour.

A change of skin tone can bring a change of heart, apparently.

A refresher in genetic mutations, breast cancer risk and the perils of overawareness

Unlike the commonly deployed social smile, distressed expressions–anger, fear, sadness, and occasionally surprise–prove much more difficult to display on command.

The industry and the F.A.A. say the climate effects of flying civilians into space will be negligible, but some scientists fret about the accumulation of black carbon in the stratosphere.

It's a fact of the archaeological record: Modern humans survived and Neanderthals did not. Why? And what does it teach us about our own survival?

A new device protects soldiers by detecting and locating optical glass.

The process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 has now been proven successful in humans.

And without it, could I do everything a five-toed human does?

All states now have a 0.08 percent legal limit, but the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says you're drunk at 0.05 percent blood-alcohol content.

From New York, around Florida and up the Mississippi, all to study a subatomic particle that only lives two millionths of a second.

As PopSci cheers from the carrier deck

A pipe that copies DNA using the heat of a lightbulb.

Forensic image analysis relaunches the controversy.

Hackers have attacked major U.S. banks over most of the past year, according to a new report.

Researchers have pinpointed a set of biological markers that could help diagnose PTSD--and, eventually, treat it.

Plant genetics are so weird.

Scientists accidentally discover a new way to isolate gold that is much safer than existing processes, which use toxic cyanide.

An HVAC system powered by an 18-wheeler’s exhaust.