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How diving beetles hang on to their mates underwater has been revealed by scientists in Taiwan.

This week a computer reportedly passed the ‘Turing test’. But what does this actually mean for artificial intelligence?

An all-in-one DNA editing kit capable of repairing genetic mistakes in cells has been developed by scientists in...

Australian scientists have used cochlear implants to deliver hearing-restoring gene therapy treatments to the inner ear.

A bug called heartbleed in the software behind most of the internet may have been leaking data out to the world.

Tests comparing Stradivari with modern-made violins failed to find any sonic advantage of the celebrated Strad...

A computer has come up with the best way to recover from jetlag, according to new research.

A black box recorder might hold the most clues to how Malaysian Airways Flight MH370 crashed - but how do they work?

Three cellulosic ethanol plants are set to come online in the US in the next few months, but will they work in the...

With the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 still missing after nearly two weeks, some people are asking how you can lose...

Powerful lasers have managed to create a fusion reaction that releases more energy than was put in...

Researchers have begun to model the brain using a computer but they'd need a power station to model the whole...

For the first time, scientists have placed tiny synthetic motors inside live human cells...

This week the Gaia telescope, a 1 billion pixel camera was tested 1.5 million km from Earth and it works!

The first prosthetic hand has been developed that allows its user to actually feel what they are touching, in real time.

Crowd funding programmes have raised money for Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to monitor carbon dioxide...

Super thin, flexible electronic circuits which can be applied to any surface have been developed by Swiss scientists...

Are commercial companies using robots to sell you products? And how realistic are they?

Will use of renewable energy take off in 2014?

Graphene looks set to enter mass market manufacturing in 2014...

China has the world’s most ambitious space programme, and 2014 will see the nation take some important steps forward...

How much energy is generating using renewables?

Scientists have engineered a surface that rejects water droplets 40% faster than had been thought feasible.

A new way to spot cancerous cells speedily, by looking at their stiffness, has been developed by US scientists.