A pioneering series of experiments in California has an ambitious goal: to create a blueprint for sustainable fisheries
From the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History: jars containing preserved tissue taken from the hind leg of a woolly mammoth
Searching with pictures, not words, turns a cameraphone into a scanner that turns the world around you into information
The universe may have been an extremely dense, hot liquid just microseconds after the big bang, suggest surprise results from the Large Hadron Collider
Is China or the US the number one cause of global warming? It all depends how you look at the numbers, says a new analysis
The first 3D full-body simulation of a flying dragonfly was created with the help of high-speed video
A new genetic toolkit should make it easy to give bacteria and even plants the ability to glow - they'll make great street lights
The mystery of how the moon got its surface water has just got a deeper, following the failure to replicate the mechanism that supposedly produces it
People conceived through donor sperm or egg could soon discover half-siblings through a proposal to collect and match their DNA samples
Two of the biggest mysteries in physics - what dark matter is made of and why matter dominates over antimatter - might be solved in one go
Strange fossils like nothing alive have baffled botanists for over a century. Now one thinks she's cracked the case
Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli's book Genetic Justice argues that DNA evidence has eroded societal freedoms - but is anyone listening?
The search giant's foray into mapping the streets of Germany has touched off pranks, the usual controversy over privacy, and even vandalism
A new super-realistic advert is blurring the boundaries between animation and real-life footage - is it the future of movies, or just showing off?
One way to prevent revealing full-body airport security scans from becoming a privacy nightmare: distort peoples' bodies beyond recognition
Utah politicians say NASA should use solid rocket boosters like those made in their home state - such political pork is not kosher, says Henry Spencer
An optical illusion has enabled the most precise measurement yet of the abundance of dark energy, thought to be accelerating the universe's expansion
For the first time, photons have been coaxed to march in lockstep as a Bose-Einstein condensate - the feat could help shrink electronic devices
In Once Before Time, Martin Bojowald explains how he developed the idea of loop quantum gravity and how it will soon be put to the test
Sealed up in the dark inside a bee's nest, Cacoxenus indagator has a monstrous trick to help it get out
This nocturnal portrait of a spotted hyena has won plaudits in an inaugural camera-trap photo competition
When is a liquid not a liquid? When it's a writhing mass of ants
Gruesome images of black markets in Burma, Thailand and China that are central to the illicit trade in endangered big cats
Scientists have discovered a bizarre deep sea worm in Indonesia that looks like it's sporting a bristly mohawk
From lay-a-bed meerkats to fish traditions, all sorts of animal behaviour comes from learning as well as genes. So what makes humans different?
The web's top search engine has got rich from cleverly picking the right few pages out the trillions online. What kind of upstart could usurp its crown?
World leaders seeking to prevent tigers going extinct should give them more prey to hunt
People who support a religious organisation are more likely to punish selfish behaviour, a new study suggests
The intense Martian cold should prolong the ability of Conan the Bacterium to withstand intense radiation
In a few short days, hackers reverse engineered Microsoft's Kinect game controller to launch a new era in human-computer interaction