Tech News Stories

A new material has been created that can delay the development of ice, even at temperatures down to 6°C below freezing.

A new magnetic material, called Galfenol, could alert car passengers to an impact up to a thousand times faster.

A record efficiency has been achieved for the production of hydrogen from sunlight using an artificial leaf.

Previously unseen interaction between beams of light could yield a breakthrough for quantum computing...

A colour changing polymer may soon be used to indicate head injuries. This is important for both military and...

A new, rocket-powered punt powered by Chelsea buns has been launched by the Cambridge Science Centre...

Evaporating water can be used as an energy source to generate electricity using bacterial spores found in soil.

The Philae lander, deployed onto the surface of comet 67-P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, has begun to to send back...

Batteries that can stretch up to 150% their original size could revolutionise the design of wearable technology...

Creating a virtual reality in which stroke patients have full use of their limbs has been shown to greatly improve...

Robots that can experiment on themselves to discover ways to keep going when they are damaged have been developed...

How horseshoe bats could revolutionise naval sonar…

A paralysed man can shake hands again thanks to a new thought-controlled robotic arm…

The Soviets were the first to send a man into space, so why are so many Russian spacecraft failing since?

Do planes need better cyber security? Ethical hacker Chris Roberts hacked an aeroplane engine - in flight - and...

How does selective hearing really work?

Content curation and news filtering by Facebook leads to ideological biases in the information presented to users...

How do bats avoid mid-air collisions? With a simple set of rules, new research reveals...

A revolutionary form of 3D-printing has been unveiled by researchers in the US.

New high-speed video of young praying mantises leaping reveals how they manage to land cleanly every time.

Miniature atom-sized holes inside diamonds can dramatically alter the colour of the crystal, a new super-powerful...

A trial to pick up the presence of Parkinson's Disease using chemicals in exhaled air has launched in Cambridge.

Human languages tend to have more happy words than sad ones...

Scientists have caught a glimpse of the underside of a tectonic plate...