Technology

Oceans are noisy. Shrimps snap their claws, whales sing to find a mate and dolphins echolocate to find food. However...

You could call it fatal attraction. Drawn by artificial lights in our brightening night-time world, animals find their...

Crimes that involve chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) materials pose a deadly threat not just to the...

How can a transaction between anonymous individuals, with no independent oversight, ever be trusted? Welcome to the...

What is Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and how can we better monitor and treat it?

Married people who work from home report feeling happier than they were before doing so,

There is growing evidence from scientific studies that individuals can become addicted to using social networking sites...

Glasses that translate images of physical objects into soundscapes and a belt that turns images into vibrations are...

What do the UK-based editor of a leading technology magazine and a self-taught coder from a low-income neighbourhood in...

An artificial leaf that can harvest energy from the sun faster than a natural one could lead to a new generation of...

By combining car sharing apps with a smartphone’s ability to measure movement and vibration, researchers are hoping to...

Bee-based maths is helping teach swarms of drones to find weeds, while robotic mowers keep hedgerows in shape.

Rght now, the human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe – but that may be about to change...

Blockchain technology developed to guarantee the value of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is now being...

Microscopic structures that can bend light are helping researchers lay the foundations of an invisibility cloak.

Artificial skin with post-human sensing capabilities, and a better understanding of skin tissue, could pave the way for...

Fingerprint scanners are all the rage, yet new research shows that this is just the beginning of biometric...

By identifying the most influential kids in small social media circles, researchers can create positive peer pressure...

Extremely thin printable solar panels could power your phone and are amongst a range of new ways nanotechnology is...

Everybody needs a helping hand when they get older – but in years to come that helping hand may be attached to a...

An extremely sensitive radar that can detect when different parts of people’s bodies are moving at different speeds...

Half of European adults are either overweight or obese. Many turn to self-help apps as a means to burn excess fat, but...

In the era of fake news, what challenges do science communicators have to overcome?

Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, usually brings images of delicate paper swans and dragons to mind. While it...