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Audi cars allegedly fooled environmental regulators by emitting less carbon-dioxide on a testing mount than the cars allowed themselves to spew when on the road, the weekly German paper Bild am Sonntag reports. It’s the same trick that…

More renewables is all good, right? Not quite. Normally, wind farms get a bad rap for deaths of birds and bats. And they have been the suspected cause of increased sightings of other species such as shore crabs (which could lead to…

At its start, the universe was a superhot melting pot that very briefly served up a particle soup resembling a 'perfect,' frictionless fluid. Scientists have recreated this 'soup,' known as quark-gluon plasma, in high-energy nuclear…

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge have created the world's smallest magnifying glass, which focuses light a billion times more tightly, down to the scale of single atoms. In collaboration with colleagues from Spain, the team…

Icy conditions can be deadly, whether you're flying into bad weather or too close to power transmission lines during a storm. Researchers at the University of Houston have reported the discovery of a material that can be applied to any…

An Oregon State University study suggests that type 1 diabetes patients may one day be able to monitor their blood glucose levels and even control their insulin infusions via a transparent sensor on a contact lens. The sensor uses a…

NGC 1222, seen in this image taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a galaxy with a rather eventful story to tell. NGC 1222 has been described as a peculiar example of a type of galaxy known…

Nintendo launched a palm-sized version of its eighties era games console, setting up an old versus new showdown with rival Sony as it released a new PlayStation 4. The dual launches marked a new chapter in the battle for supremacy…

A wireless 'brain-spinal interface' has been used by an international team of scientists to bypass spinal cord injuries in a pair of rhesus macaques, restoring intentional walking movement to a temporarily paralyzed leg. The researchers,…