The world’s nuclear powers are planning to spend hundreds of billions of pounds modernising and upgrading weapons warheads and delivery systems over the next decade, according to an authoritative report published on Monday.
Plugging gadgets into a socket in the wall, or loading them with batteries – or maybe even unfurling a solar panel – is how most of us think of getting electricity. But what about...
Researchers have created the smallest electric motor ever devised. The motor, made from a single molecule just a billionth of a metre across, is reported in Nature Nanotechnology. The minuscule motor could have applications in...
Researchers have shown off a “DNA computer” of unprecedented complexity, which can calculate square roots. DNA computing uses chemical reactions to solve problems in which a number of DNA strands act as “bits”.
A Department of Homeland Security-funded surveillance drone deployed against insurgents in Afghanistan that can also be used to tase suspects from above has been unveiled by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s office and will be...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Even anarchic movements like to have some legal protections: Occupy Wall Street’s organizers have applied to trademark their movement’s name.
New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) — On Tuesday, three U.S.-trained scientists won the Nobel prize in physics, for finding definitive evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
In a provocative experiment, researchers said Wednesday they had used a cloning technique to create early-stage human embryos that were partial copies of the patients from which they were derived.
While rocket-science researchers at the 100 Year Starship Symposium pondered interstellar travel on a whole new class of spaceship over the weekend, theologians debated an equally paradigm-shifting concept: reconciling the Bible with life elsewhere in the...
A whole universe of mysterious viruses remains hidden in our world, according to a new study that finds evidence of an immense and previously unknown variety of viruses living in raw sewage.
