Myths and reality of the Nazi space rocket
3 September 2014
Seventy years ago this month, one of the second world war's scariest weapons began to rain terror on London. But the V-2 was also the world's first spacecraft
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Bob Fraser explains what it feels like to pilot a Jetstream airliner containing passengers on 800-kilometre trips from a desk
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9 July 2014
Your most intimate companion may be betraying you. Smartphones are lucrative targets for cybercriminals and keeping them true might not be as easy as we hoped
ButtonMasher: Photorealism takes gaming deeper
8 July 2014
A new wave of games uses thousands of photos to recreate every detail of the real world and heighten our sense of immersion
Today on New Scientist
26 June 2014
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Polite drones open door for efficient robot armies
25 June 2014
Robots that can navigate in unknown spaces have been given manners to help them coordinate their in-flight movements
One Per Cent
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