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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..

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

Scientists have produced a bendy battery that can stretch elastically to three times its normal length without...

A group of US and Chinese researchers have developed a generator that can convert footsteps into electrical power...

Soft robots can be simple and cheap but incredibly agile: powered by explosions, they can leap at least 30 times their...

And finally, enormous library archives of magnetic tape or other media could one day be a thing of the past if a new...

A group of Korean researchers have produced flexible films of thermoelectric material that can generate electricity...

Does improved energy efficiency translate into a saving for the planet? Or does it just mean people use more resources...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have developed a DNA-based “smart gel” that can contract...

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.

A new form of backwards printing has been developed with a very high resolution

The drill bits which the Curiosity rover will use to examine Martian rocks may be contaminated with Earth life.

In a giant leap for technology, scientists have doubled the electricity-producing efficiency of the thermoelectric...

A superhydrophobic layer repels water from hot metal and prevents it boiling...

A router which auto-corrects its position, allowing you to cut precision shapes by hand, has been built by researchers...

Cable-like batteries which can be tied into a knot have been developed in Korea...

How can you communicate if you can’t move a muscle? This is the situation for people with ‘locked-in syndrome’ - but a...

Scientists have discovered the chemical combination the constitutes a flavoursome tomato

Researchers have developed a DNA-based memory chip for storing information inside cells that could allow us to track...