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The office supply chain announced Friday that it is now selling 3D printers on Staples.com and will start selling 3D printers in stores by the end of June.

Certain landscapes of western India completely devoid of wilderness and with high human populations are crawling with a different kind of backyard wildlife: leopards.

Hundreds of chimpanzees that have spent a lifetime in US research laboratories are expected to be given their freedom, prompting an outcry from pro-experimentation scientists and a scramble for cash by primate charities.

Apple is seeking a patent for an iPhone that has a display that wraps around the edges of the device, expanding the viewable area and eliminating all physical buttons.

NASA's Swift satellite caught a new photo of Comet ISON as it makes its way towards the inner solar system.

This long and bitter winter has tested the resilience of life all across the land, from lambing ewes to hatching birds and buds. But what of its toll on us, asks Patrick Barkham

The ancient Plutonium, a poisonous cave found in Turkey, was believed in Greco-Roman mythology to be the portal to hell.

Theo Leggett looks at high-tech solutions to traffic problems, including a car that folds itself to fit in a smaller space.

A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth and led to the extinction...

(Phys.org) —Low-energy terahertz radiation could potentially enable doctors to see deep into tissues without the damaging effects of X-rays, or allow security guards to identify chemicals in a package without opening it.

Last week, planetary scientists gathered for the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Only a tiny fraction of the presentations at LPSC dealt with future missions.

A new state-of-the-art device to assist the elderly and disabled with sitting, standing and walking.

The push by Mercedes-Benz into having more green car options available in its consumer fleet upped by one this week as the German automaker unveiled at the 2013 New York Auto Show an all-electric car ...

Switzerland is the most innovative country in Europe, comfortably ahead of second-placed Sweden, according to an annual study by the European Union.

Later this year SpaceX will unveil the design of a new and upgraded version of the firm’s Dragon spacecraft that will look like “an Alien spaceship,” said Elon Musk, the CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX, at a NASA media...

Not since last year's TacoCopter fiasco has there been such a vague and ominous potential use for multicopters to hit the web.

Newer home automation technologies let mobile devices control functions like heating, lighting and home security.

Technology may be altering what happens when we sleep.

(Phys.org) —A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth.