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The world is generating data at a rate that is rising exponentially. In fact, the human population has produced more...

A tiny sensor capable of transmitting information from inside the body and powered by stomach acid has been unveiled by...

A computer programme, designed to teach itself, can spot skin cancers as successfully as a panel of trained skin...

Researchers have resorted to robotics to help the 40 million people affected worldwide by heart failure.

Prostate cancer is diagnosed in more than a million men every year, and the rates have more than doubled in recent...

Plants that use nanoparticles to pick up the presence of pollution, or even explosives, have been engineered by...

An electronic implant has enabled a spinal injury patient to experience sensations from his hand for the first time...

Sonic holograms that shape sound waves into complex patterns to manipulate tiny objects, have been developed by...

Using brain implants, a pair of monkeys have reproduced some of Shakespeare's work to break a speed record for...

A new concept in energy storage based on water and capable of soaking up power from solar cells has been developed by...

Rigid robots step aside — the octopus-shaped soft equivalent, “octobot” is wiggling around.

Speedy chewing robot munches on paleodiet to evaluate tooth wear rate.

A technique for storing data using individual atoms has been announced by scientists in the Netherlands...

A new coating, illuminated by a low-cost infrared laser, can produce powerful beams of warm white light.

A new generation of "optical" clock promises to make time-keeping even more accurate.

Nanobots (really small robots) sound like science fiction, but Cambridge researchers have brought them one step closer...

Bacteria that can degrade PET, one of the most commonly used forms of plastic, have been identified by Japanese...

A soft robotic skin sensitive to touch and deformation, and with the ability to change colour like an octopus, has been...

A wireless electrode device that beams brainwaves out of the head has enabled monkeys to manoeuvre wheelchairs using...

The first step towards a space-based gravitational wave telescope has been tested successfully by the European Space...

A 3d printer capable of building organs and tissues by printing complex arrangements of cells has been unveiled by US...

Researchers find compulsive sexual behaviour, more commonly known as sex addiction, is driven by the huge novelty...

A new technique that uses ultrasound waves has enabled French scientists to see some of the smallest structures in the...

A system that uses sound waves to manipulate objects in mid air, and even inside the body, has been developed by...