NASA’s long planning horizon today details a history of science facts and their sci-fi roots. The study is based on a collaborative European Space Agency project, ‘Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction for Space Applications.’ More than 200 technical dossiers are described–from holodecks to terraforming comets–but one of the fundamental questions posed is: what is the […]

It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer.

A team in Australia led by Graham Giles of The […]

The Scottish company involved in the creation of Dolly the sheep will today begin a mass slaughter of its flock in an effort to cut costs in the face of mounting financial problems.

PPL Therapeutics, the Midlothian-based biotechnology company, is to destroy up to 3,000 transgenic sheep at two farms in East Lothian as it struggles […]

Today’s connected homes look nothing like the top-down schemes for automated houses hatched by Japanese electronics companies in the 1980s. In Japan’s Platonic ideal, prior to the commercial Internet, all the amenities were to be controlled by a central computer. In contrast, consumers today are setting up their electronics room by room to share high-speed […]

A computer program that hijacks the personal computers of ordinary home users in order to pass on pornographic web pages has been discovered by US researchers.

The program was discovered by independent computer expert Richard M Smith, who was investigating claims of an internet payment scam.

Analysis of the program, dubbed Migmaf, shows that it can turn […]