Technology - general
Robots to increasingly replace ‘regular’ sex between people: experts
20 Dec 2016
Questions that will face regulators involve how much data to allow robots to collect about their human partners and send back to their manufacturers
Carbon dots dash toward ‘green’ recycling role
19 Dec 2016
Internet use in class tied to lower test scores
17 Dec 2016
Warning: Surfing the internet in class is now linked to poorer test scores, even among the most intelligent and motivated of students
Manipulating brain activity to boost confidence
16 Dec 2016
Alternative fuel cell technology reduces cost
14 Dec 2016
Alternative fuel cell technology reduces cost
14 Dec 2016
Water: finding the normal within the weird
14 Dec 2016
Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills
13 Dec 2016
The lowly sawdust has been chemically modified to make it exceptionallyoil-attracting, absorbing up to five times its weight in oil and staying afloat for at least four months
How do we keep GPS safe from sabotage?
10 Dec 2016
Hydrogen from sunlight -- but as a dark reaction
10 Dec 2016
Finger swipe-powered phone? We're 1 step closer
10 Dec 2016
Keeping electric car design on the right road
10 Dec 2016
Half of people believe fake facts
08 Dec 2016
Apple to start publishing its AI research
07 Dec 2016
Scientific breakthrough reveals unprecedented alternative to battery power storage
07 Dec 2016
Breakthrough research has discovered new materials offering an alternative to battery power - 1,000 to 10,000 times more powerful than the existing battery alternative - a supercapacitor
Microfactories turn unwanted electronics into valuable metal alloys; solve global e-waste crisis
07 Dec 2016
The breakthrough new process recovers the considerable wealth of resources embedded in e-waste while overcoming the challenges of toxicity and the often prohibitively high costs of conventional industrial-scale recycling
Researchers find cosmic dust in cities
06 Dec 2016
Scientists map human thought for the first time
06 Dec 2016
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