Science

Bill Gates Touts Omniprocessor For Electricity and Water From Human Waste

Bill Gates drinks fresh water made from human waste, and surprisingly it doesn't taste like urine

10 years ago

Nuclear Plant Discovers Worm Infection

Malware has been discovered in a device connected to the control systems of a nuclear power plant in South Korea

10 years ago

Smartphone Use Alters The Human Brain

Smartphones use is altering the human brain, but not in the sinister way scaremongers would have you believe

10 years ago

Fancy Making Contact With Little Green Men?

UK space organisations team up with Raspberry Pi offer kids the chance to send your computer code into space

10 years ago

NASA Selects Entry For DARPA Robotic Competition

With two possible entries for an upcoming robotic challenge, NASA opts for the more manoeuvrable machine

10 years ago

Driverless Car Tests Set To Begin In Four English Cities

Bristol, Greenwich, Milton Keynes and Coventry will host driverless cars tests ahead of their arrival on British roads next year

10 years ago

Panasonic Kicks Off ‘Sustainable Town’

Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town looks to spur on sustainable power generation, emissions reductions, smart metering and other green technologies

10 years ago

World’s First Digital Animal Created In Robot Body

Is the world's first digital replica of an animal either a dog, cat, or a more exotic animal?

10 years ago

Old TV Signals Could Be Used For Long Range ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Network

German researchers say old TV signals should be made available as "common property" for super Wi-Fi networks that can travel…

10 years ago

Businesses “Must Embrace Innovation On A New Scale” To Solve The Challenges Of Tomorrow, Says Siemens

Ben Collar, director of Research & Development for Siemens Road and City Mobility, explains how businesses need to take a…

10 years ago

Why Has Google Leased Historic Moffett Airfield From NASA?

Will Google use its newly acquired Moffett Airfield for drones or more exotic airborne technology?

10 years ago

Self-Learning Robots Produced With 3D Printers

Norwegian researchers 'print' self-learning robots for potentially hazardous duties

10 years ago

Apple To Open Office In Cambridge

Apple rumoured to be moving to the UK's 'Silicon Fen' with a new research and development office in Cambridge

10 years ago

11 Million UK Jobs ‘Under Threat From Robots’

Rise of the machines is bad news for UK job prospects, Deloitte report warns

10 years ago

Elon Musk Plots Satellite Internet Venture

Tesla and SpaceX CEO could invest in small, cheap satellites capable of providing worldwide Internet access

10 years ago

Scientists Develop Safer Child-Friendly Battery Coating

Scientists invent coating to prevent visits to hospital A&E departments due to battery ingestion

10 years ago

Digital Catapult Centre Opens In London As Three New Locations Are Revealed

Government hopes Digital Catapult Centre will encourage collaboration and innovation and announces three new locations in Bradford, Brighton and Sunderland

10 years ago

IBM Puts Watson To Work In Research, Analytics

The cognitive computing technology is used to develop better drugs, faster

10 years ago

Inventor Of Modern Storage Stuart Parkin Is Awarded The 2014 Millennium Prize

Parkin’s innovation enabled 1000-fold growth in the capacity of hard drives

11 years ago

Bio-Organic Battery Charges Samsung Galaxy S4 In 26 Seconds

Israeli startup StoreDot says it could create commercial bio-organic batteries within the next three years

11 years ago

Samsung Claims Major Breakthrough In Graphene Commercialisation

Samsung says its engineers have developed a new method that could make wonder-material graphene easier and cheaper to produce

11 years ago

GPS: TechWeek Quiz Of The Week

Where would we be without GPS? Our quiz looks at the history of a technology we all rely on

11 years ago

Liquid Cooling Gets Inside Chips

Researchers at Lausanne's EPFL institute explain how chips can be made more efficient by running liquids through them in tiny…

11 years ago

UK Government Announces £270m Investment In Quantum Computing

£270 million will be spent by five Quantum Technology Centres over the next five years

11 years ago

Mars Rover Laser Hits Landmark

The Mars rover 'Curiosity' has now fired its laser 100,000 times since landing on the red planet last year

11 years ago

IBM Lets Android Users Donate Computing Power To Science

Under a new IBM project Android users can allow their devices' computing power to be used in aid of scientific…

11 years ago

Osborne Spending Review Gives Boost To Broadband And Sciences

Chancellor to maintain broadband spending plans and fix science investment, amidst widespread cuts

11 years ago

IBM Research Screens ‘World’s Smallest Movie’

Research into the future of storage has allowed scientists to produce a stop-motion film composed of individual atoms

12 years ago

Cambridge Graphene Research Centre To Open Doors In 2013

The £25 million project could bring the wonderful material to the mass market

12 years ago