Blood oxygen levels may soon be measured in the comfort of your own home using a personal...
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The most accurate clock ever made, accurate to one second in ten billion years...
A solar-powered medical steriliser for third world countries uses nanoparticles to produce a scalding jet of bug-...
Did homeowners with a poor command of maths cause the global financial crisis, US researchers are wondering...?
A “cloaking device”, capable of rendering objects invisible to microwave light, has been produced using a 3-D printer.
IBM have created the world's smallest movie using atoms - here's how they did it!
Observations of a massive neutron star in a compact stellar binary in outer space confirm general relativity theory.
Biofuels – often suggested as low or no carbon alternatives to fossil – may not be as green as they seem.
As you increase an LED's power, the efficiency tends to droop. A team of researchers have worked out why.
Strange motion of water molecules mixed with nanotubes and carbon isotopes. What could the applications of this new...
German scientists have designed a high-efficiency, low-cost lithium-sulphur battery...
An analysis of data collected by the Planck Telescope supports a period of rapid expansion shortly after the big bang...
Scientists have produced a bendy battery that can stretch elastically to three times its normal length without...
A team of US scientists have developed a flexible battery than can be stretched to three times its size without...
This month has seen the MARS2013 simulation underway in a desert in the Northern Sahara...
Since their discovery cosmic rays have been a mystery. Now, an orbiting gamma-ray telescope has managed to identify...
A group of US and Chinese researchers have developed a generator that can convert footsteps into electrical power...
A group of Korean researchers have produced flexible films of thermoelectric material that can generate electricity...
Still glowing from one of the scientific discoveries of the decade - the Higgs boson - the Large Hadron Collider at...
The resolution of magnetic resonance imaging could be about to go up several notches thanks to a new, nanoscale imaging...
Porcupine quills penetrate skin better than a hypodermic needle because of tiny backwards-facing barbs at their tips....
A free-floating planet has been discovered in space...
The light-emitting tails of fireflies have revealed a way for scientists to create more efficient LEDs.
Nature has inspired researchers to make brighter, more efficient LEDs, by copying the structure of a firefly’s rear end.
There is a mystery surrounding the amount of infrared light that bathes the universe –the so called cosmic infrared...