Digital Einstein is a new website that opens up all of Einstein’s papers for free. The site includes not only scientific papers, but personal letters, memos and even ...
December 7, 2014 at 8:03 pm by Ryan Simmons
A student at Brunel University in London has saved £100,000 by hacking USB microscopes. The PhD student needed a highly sophisticated microscope for his research into cell ...
November 26, 2014 at 8:09 pm by Ryan Simmons
Harvard researchers have built a $10 robot that has been designed to teach children how to write code. The small AERobot can be connected to a computer via USB and programmed ...
November 23, 2014 at 1:20 am by Ryan Simmons
Nope, we’re not talking about the screeching sounds of a Dial-Up modem from the 90’s – you can (apparently) hear WiFi with the help of some fancy ...
November 18, 2014 at 3:45 am by Chris Smith
In an interesting example of wireless data transmission, researchers in Vienna delivered digital data over 2 miles via twisted laser beams. Using a technique known as ...
November 13, 2014 at 6:50 am by Ryan Simmons
The Holodeck technology that features in the StarTrek franchise is still a little out of our technological reach, but the idea of using VR technology to keep astronauts sane ...
October 17, 2014 at 12:58 pm by Peter Donnell
Google have joined forces with researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara to develop “quantum computing” technology. The technology is still highly ...
September 4, 2014 at 2:58 pm by Peter Donnell
NASA are cooking up something big, very big! The simple-named Space Launch System, a 384 feet tall rocket, the biggest ever created. To put this into perspective the Saturn V ...
September 2, 2014 at 9:59 am by Peter Donnell
Creating knockoff Lego blocks, a funky key ring or a new phone case are some of the basic features available from your run of the mill consumer 3D printer, but NASA are really ...
August 30, 2014 at 11:59 am by Peter Donnell
Firstly, sorry for the rather grim image you’re looking at, it’s the only one of the creature and secondly, before you all say “this isn’t technology ...
August 12, 2014 at 9:00 pm by Kyle Williams
The trailer for The Theory of Everything has been released, depicting the life and struggle of Stephen Hawkings. There are few people in the modern world that haven’t ...
August 11, 2014 at 8:52 am by Peter Donnell
I’m betting most of you have had a moment in your life with a noisy neighbour, their music is too loud and all you want to do it tell them to STFU. It’s likely ...
August 10, 2014 at 9:46 am by Peter Donnell
Patients that are in a coma, a vegetative state or in a minimally conscious state sometimes recover spontaneously to varying degrees, most cases however, there is ...
August 10, 2014 at 12:37 am by Dave Alcock
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has spent the last decade on an epic journey from Earth to the deep reaches of space, in a bid to hunt down and study a ...
August 6, 2014 at 9:31 am by Peter Donnell
Last year in South Korea, ship building workers were wearing robotic exoskeletons, allowing them to walk around with huge sections of metal, pipe work and other objects ...
August 4, 2014 at 5:21 pm by Peter Donnell
