British inventor James Dyson unveiled his latest hi-tech gadget on Tuesday, the world’s smallest, most powerful — and possibly most expensive — vacuum cleaner, in a bid to clean up the Japanese market.

After decades of failed attempts, scientists may have solved the problem of creating artificial blood.

More than a million pages from 19th Century British newspapers are to be put online by the British Library.

An electric “force field” for armoured vehicles that vaporises anti-tank grenades and shells on impact has been developed by scientists at the UK Ministry of Defence.

It sounds like treatment you might get at an exotic resort. But a Japanese company has developed a sleep machine system it says will deliver a full eight hours of Z’s in your own bedroom.

Rico, the nearly nine-year-old Border collie, can learn the names of unfamiliar toys after just one exposure to the new word-toy combination. The scientists equate the dog’s apparent learning to a process seen in human language acquisition called “fast mapping.” The fast mapping abilities of children allow them to form quick and rough hypotheses about […]

The whole fractal thing was primarily the child of the often-ostracized lone-wolf mathematician by the name of Benoit Mandelbrot. He worked at IBM during the 1960s and is the father of fractal science.

Miniature robot that helps point surgeons to just the right place for spinal repairs has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Thin crystalline sheets that shift the positions of their ions in response to an electric field look more promising as a fast, low power memory devices in personal and handheld computers, following new research in the US.

Owners will be able to take their cats, dogs and ferrets on holiday abroad this summer even if they do not have a pet passport as required under EU law, the European Commission said Wednesday.