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The virtual currency 'bitcoin' has long been used by gamers to buy extra features online. Now you can spend...

This week Google has tested a new balloon network that could being internet to remote locations...

A self-powering retinal implant that can turn light into sight has been successfully tested in rats.

A team in Singapore have developed an invisibility cloak that can hide goldfish and cats...

Scientists have engineered a viral vector that can convert cells lining the airways into producers of flu-fighting...

Optics develop to send 400Gbits per second down an optical fibre 12800km long and could reduce the price and increase...

Can we watch chemical reactions taking place with new atomic force microscope technology?

Just one return trip to Mars would eat up about two-thirds of an astronaut's lifetime "safe" dose of...

QuickFire Science on the 60th anniversary of the first complete ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tensing...

Scientists have used 3D printing techniques to construct a new trachea to successfully treat a child born with airway...

A “cloaking device”, capable of rendering objects invisible to microwave light, has been produced using a 3-D printer.

This week the world's first gun made entirely from a 3D printer was successfully fired. Here's the...

Scientists in China have developed a sensor that can reveal when food might be bad to eat because it’s been poorly...

IBM have created the world's smallest movie using atoms - here's how they did it!

Strange motion of water molecules mixed with nanotubes and carbon isotopes. What could the applications of this new...

Scientists have developed a new laser-based imaging technique capable of producing high resolution 3-D images of...

X-ray crystallography can now be carried out without crystals...

German scientists have designed a high-efficiency, low-cost lithium-sulphur battery...

In the 7 months since it landed the Curiosity rover has rolled 738 meters but one small step for a rover has been a...

Engineers have come up with a way to deliver 3D images on mobiles, televisions and tablet computer screens without the...

Physicists from the Russian Academy of Sciences claim to have made the first detection of water dimers in realistic...

Researchers are now tracking online searches to find evidence for possible side effects to prescription drugs..

Flame retardant DNA

A team of US scientists have developed a flexible battery than can be stretched to three times its size without...