When Gary Patton pulls a thin, round wafer-like sheet from his coat pocket, he makes no attempts to conceal his excitement. “It’s cutting-edge innovation!” says the man who heads IBM’s resea... Read more
Scientists have discovered a molecular process in the brain triggered by cocaine use that could provide a target for treatments to prevent or reverse addiction to the drug. Reporting in the... Read more
Drugs that combat ageing may be available within five years, following landmark work led by an Australian researcher. The work, published in the March 8 issue of Science, finally proves that... Read more
An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element providing the new powe... Read more
A diagnostic ‘cocktail,’ containing a single drop of blood, a dribble of water and a dose of DNA powder with gold particles, could one day lead to the treatment of the world’s leading diseas... Read more
It’s a bit like memory foam, but with strength and bounce-ability. If anything bothers University of Virginia physicist Lou Bloomfield, it’s a wobbly table. So much so that he actually inven... Read more
A smartphone app that uses a phone’s camera to analyse urine and check for a range of medical conditions has been shown off at the TED (Technology, Education and Design) conference in... Read more
A transparent computer that allows users to reach inside and touch digital content has been unveiled at the TED conference in Los Angeles. TED fellow Jinha Lee has been working on the SpaceT... Read more
As for the possibility that one day robots will turn on us – Kragic is skeptical. Humanity came one step closer in January to being able to replicate itself, thanks to the EU’s approval of f... Read more
Provita, a company staffed entirely by kids under 18, is working on a project (with funding from the Gates Foundation) to use mosquitoes to help carry important vaccines. Joshua Meier, CEO o... Read more