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Then Wash Your Hands: The Pathogens of Prehistoric Poo

23/07/2016

Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road ...

Easier, Faster, Cheaper Carbon Nanotubes. At LAST!

17/07/2016

A straightforward route for engineering the properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes...

UAVs: Where We’re Going, We Don’t NEED Humans

07/07/2016

Teaching drones about the birds and the bees ...

You Know What Sunburn Does to Your Skin, But Did You Know What it Does to Your Wine?

23/06/2016

Protecting grapes from pests by boosting their natural immunity ...

Think Kids With Drones Are Annoying? Meet the RoboBee

12/06/2016

Harvard University researchers helps develop unique flying micro-robots...

Aussie Ute-Juice: Making Biofuel From Roadside Weed Stems

04/06/2016

Australian scientists discover abundant source for environmentally friendly biofuel...

Meet the Self-Healing Electronic Material that means the End of Walloping the Telly

22/05/2016

Self-healing, flexible electronic material restores functions after breakage...

Melty Yum. The Chemistry of a Low Fat Chocolate that Might Actually Taste Good

03/05/2016

Clever boffins work on ways to make low fat chocolate taste less like Babybel rind...

Got the time on yer, cock? Digital e-Skin display Developed

18/04/2016

Ultrathin organic material enhances e-skin display ...

Forget Lipstick on the Collar, Viral Tracking Reveals Exactly Where You’ve Been

05/04/2016

Your viruses could reveal your travel history, and more ...

A Computational Tool to Tame Golf’s SCARIEST Drive

21/03/2016

Computer simulations may help golfers tame the sport's 'scariest 155 yards' ...

Can the Clean Fuel Movement Ketch Up With Florida’s Tomato Battery?

18/03/2016

Creative thinkers in Florida develop an innovative use for waste material - the tomato battery...

Come to the Dark Side with Turnable Windows

15/03/2016

Inspired by frozen ponds, Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League powerhouse to address the always-vexing problem of window light...

We Can Teach You That Wholesale – Learning By Transcranial Stimulation

01/03/2016

Learn how to fly a plane from expert-pilot brainwave patterns ...

Screw Your Noisy Drone, We’ve Got Electric Bubbles! MIT Make Ultra Lightweight Solar Cell

29/02/2016

MIT develop thinnest and lightest solar cells ever ...

It’s Balls, Not Smears. New Experiment Plots Quantum Surrealism

23/02/2016

Scientists succeed at measuring the unmeasurable - demonstrating quantum forces without disturbing them. ...

Stimulating the Simulcra. Can Humans be Trusted With Artificial Intelligence?

22/02/2016

Can such a flawed race create anything but accelerated evil? Examining free will, AI technology, and addictive stimulus....

First Look at the Stretchable nano-scale device That’ll Soon Be in Your Contact Lenses

21/02/2016

Researchers create a stretchable nano-scale device to manipulate light...

Are You Being Servo’d? Cybathlon: The Olympics of Assistive Technologies

16/02/2016

A global Olympic-style competition to advance assistive & robotic technologies...

I Can’t Do that, Dave. Artificial Intelligence, Dada and the Ethics of Perception

16/02/2016

Are humans worthy to create more powerful beings 'in our own image'? Essay....

Could This Be the Invention that Fixes Everything? CO2 as Sustainable Fuel

08/02/2016

Carbon dioxide captured from air converted directly to methanol fuel for the first time ...

Psst, Keep this to yourself: How to Expose Massive Conspiracies

28/01/2016

Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves. But maybe that's just What They Want You To Think! Or not. Perhaps. ...

Zap Those Clouds Away: Smart Windows Get Cheaper

24/01/2016

Soft colour composites may offer a cheaper alternative to smart windows. MIT researcher explains how. ...

They’re Floaty Light! Levitating Glowing Nanodiamonds

09/09/2015

Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum ...

Two before bedtime? The Sensitivity Pill

22/03/2015

Under tolcapone's influence, game players were more sensitive to and less tolerant of social inequity...

A picture of Godzilla in London by Dan Booth

Measuring Schrodinger’s Quantum Cats

22/01/2014

University of Rochester researchers develop a method to measure quantum states whilst avoiding the uncertainty principle....

Listening : Modes and Strategies

20/01/2014

Listening is largely, though not exclusively, a conscious activity. ...

A picture of vibrations by University of Buffalo

Scientists Discover Nature’s Good Vibes

18/01/2014

Like the strings on a violin or the pipes of an organ, the proteins in the human body vibrate in different patterns, scientists have long suspected....

A picture of the hashtag campaign #icanchangethepast

In Search of Time Travellers

06/01/2014

If there were time travelers among us, would they be on social media? How would you find them? Could you Google them?...

A picture of a broken window by Carl Byron Batson

Kentucky Fried 3D Printing

09/12/2013

In a future where any garage, shed or corner of a living room could be turned into a miniature factory, what will be the point of large scale manufacturing?...

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