Technology

AI can encode human biases, with implications for how we handle the pandemic

Cheaper, lighter, and more energy-dense: the future of batteries?

On the deck of the Bliss, beyond the reach of cellphone coverage, I sailed into my life before the Internet...

How does an electric vehicle battery actually work?

The NHS contact tracing app has arrived, and is causing controversy...

If you knew you were going to be on dialysis in four years time, would you do something about it?

A Naked Scientists intern turned DNA sleuth updates us on where she's got to...

This is the first question I get whenever I mention what I’ve been up to for the past two months...

What it is inclusive design, why do we need it, and how can it make computers more accessible?

The team get inside the industry, and hear about and test-drive the latest top video games releases...

Data science; a profession, a discipline? But what actually is it

Using spin to push the bounds of electronic devices

Shoppers ‘can’t afford’ energy efficient cars, homes - researchers...

Why eschewing tech may be good for mental well-being...

Is our reality a computer simulation?

Your ideas will create the materials of the future...

Could 5G democratise telecoms?

The modern-day equivalent of a scale pan for molecules

Could drawing on the properties of quantum behaviour provide a route to truly secure cryptography?

The same systems that are fanning the flames of fake news can also help to combat it...

Shark-cams reveal the world through a white shark's eyes for the first time...

How do satellites communicate with each other?

What will wheelchairs of the future be like?

To get to Mars, we need to reach the Moon first. The LRO will be NASA's eye while preparing for new missions.