UK scientists have won permission to create a human embryo that will have genetic material from two mothers.

Mobile phones could one day have the memory capacity of a desktop computer thanks to a microchip that mimics the functioning of the brain, scientists report today (9 September) in the journal Science.

Transplants of animal organs into people could take place within a few years because of the acute shortages of donated human organs, a leading scientist said on Friday.

The world is gradually winning its battle to overcome drinking water shortages through better resource management, an international conference on rivers held in Australia this week heard.

A new generation of barely- audible, fuel-efficient passenger aircraft described as “flying wings” with “virtual windows” could arrive in two decades, engineers from Britain’s Cambridge University said on Friday.

For a couple of thousand years, smokers have sought a quick concentration boost by firing up a cigarette.

This year’s Ars Electronica Festival hosted over 33,000 visitors who came to ponder works that explored the festival’s theme: hybrid.

Open source is still up to five years away from mainstream use in enterprise IT infrastructures, despite the progress made in the commercialisation of the platform, according to analyst Gartner.

This is likely the biggest technological breakthrough of the year, arguably even of the decade.
A team of researcher from the University of Texas, Dallas, and Australia’s CSIRO has come up with a way to make strong, stable macroscale sheets and ribbons of multiwall nanotubes at a rate of seven meters per minute. Complete with […]

Scientists have developed an ultra-light limb that they claim can mimic the movement in a real hand better than any currently available. Great photo.

It started as an answer to leaky pens carried by American soldiers during World War Two, was perfected and made popular by an Italian-born baron and has written its way into history as the world’s biggest-selling pen.

Scientists have developed a backpack that makes “power walking” a reality. Described today in the journal Science, the novel device translates the regular up-and-down movement of a walker’s hips into electrical energy.