Technology - general

New work shines light on Hox genes responsible for firefly lantern development

08 Apr 2014

UK defence ministry develops robot mannequin to test protective suits and equipment

05 Apr 2014

The UK’s ministry of defence has unveiled a robotic mannequin that has the ability to run, sit and even mimic the movement of a soldier

Could diamonds be a computer’s best friend?

05 Apr 2014

Solar cells turned into cheap printable lasers

04 Apr 2014

Solar cells based on a perovskite material not only excel at absorbing light but also at emitting it, turning them into low-cost lasers, a team from Oxford University and Cambridge University has shown

Chimps use gestures to communicate in their hunt for food

03 Apr 2014

Engineered bacteria produce biofuel alternative for high-energy rocket fuel

29 Mar 2014

Yale researchers reconstruct facial images locked in a viewer’s mind

By By Bill Hathaway | 29 Mar 2014

Oh, brother: plants can recognise their siblings

24 Mar 2014

Plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can recognize their siblings — other plants grown from seeds from the same mother plant

Stephen Hawking claims to have won bet on inflation theory of universe

20 Mar 2014

Phone record surveillance yields more personal data than claimed

20 Mar 2014

Two computer science graduate students from Stanford have found that the NSA's mass collection of phone records can yield much more information about people's private lives than the US government claims

US consortium H2USA creating infrastructure for hydrogen vehicles

20 Mar 2014

A consortium of US automakers, energy companies, government laboratories, and others is accelerating the rollout of an infrastructure for hydrogen-powered vehicles, a few months before such vehicles become available in the US for the first time

Bionic plants

19 Mar 2014

Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives.

Scientists detect first direct evidence for Big Bang theory

18 Mar 2014

The ground-breaking results have come from observations of the cosmic microwave background, a faint glow left over from the Big Bang, by the BICEP2 telescope