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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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