“There’s never been anything like this,” Ed Stone, chief scientist for the Voyager mission, told Computerworld in reference to Voyager 1’s foray into interstellar space. A study published yesterday confirmed that the probe had slipped the bonds of our solar…
Category: Innovations
Microsoft pulls Apple iPhone parody video
Although Microsoft’s clever jabs at Apple over the past year have managed to win a few fans, a new parody video, posted by the company on Friday, apparently wasn’t having the desired effect and has now been pulled from YouTube.
Mobile app to manage diabetes and athletic performance
By Simon Redfern
Amazon cloud goes down in Northern Virginia
Updated Amazon’s mammoth compute cloud experienced problems on Friday, disrupting the constellation of sites that depend on it, such as Heroku.
Vaccine ‘clears HIV-like virus’ in monkeys
By Rebecca Morelle
Signs of Ancient Life Stirring in Antarctic Lake
By: James Fenner
Mosquito ‘invisibility cloak’ discovered
By Melissa Hogenboom
British govt rejects science behind neonicotinoid ban
By Matt McGrath
Schools’ tricks to inflate science grades revealed
By Judith Burns
UK scientists to probe Pine Island Glacier
By Jonathan Amos
Sleep ‘boosts brain cell numbers’
Scientists believe they have discovered a new reason why we need to sleep – it replenishes a type of brain cell.
Silver trumps gold in nano advance
By Julie Gould
New timeline for origin of ancient Egypt
By Rebecca Morelle
Laser-guided surgery finds brain cancer’s boundary
Laser-guided surgery could improve the odds of removing all of a brain tumour by clearly highlighting its edges, US researchers say.
African fish is fastest-maturing vertebrate
Tiny fish that live in temporary puddles in Africa reach sexual maturity faster than any other animal with a backbone, say scientists.
South Korean ‘Armadillo’ car folds up for easy parking
By Hyunjoo Jin
Acer launches world’s first 4K smartphone
With three days to go until the start of this year’s IFA consumer electronics show, the Taiwanese company gets the jump on its rivals by unveiling what is currently the only handset that can record footage in ultra-high definition.
On giant blue alien planet, it rains molten glass
Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor
Nokia connects cars to cloud with here auto
Eric Zeman
Protein clue to old-age memory loss
James Gallagher
Miniature ‘human brain’ grown in lab
Miniature “human brains” have been grown in a lab in a feat scientists hope will transform the understanding of neurological disorders.
By PanArmenian
Microbes to be ‘last survivors’ on future Earth
The last surviving creatures on Earth will be tiny organisms living deep underground, according to scientists.
Apple, Google, Nokia, and Samsung plan big product launches
September is looming, and although it is notoriously a bad month for stocks in general, it’s a great month for technology stocks. Specifically, it’s the time for companies to show us what they’ve got for the rest of the year—that…
Companies devise wireless charging for electric buses
By Jeyuup S. Kwaak
The gallery which lives on in time and space
The Science Museum is transforming its largest exhibition space into a new gallery dedicated to the information technology revolution.
It’s a Blue Moon in the sky
EDITOR’S NOTE: Originally, this story had incorrectly stated the next blue moon “will occur in 2015, when full moons will occur on July 2 and 23.” This story has been corrected with the right dates of July 2 and 31.
The birth of a star, captured in stunning detail
By Deborah Netburn
Copper linked to Alzheimer’s disease
A lifetime of too much copper in our diets may be contributing to Alzheimer’s disease, US scientists say.
Computer reads letters directly from brain
By Eurasia Review