11:42 07 January 2009

Portable devices could be hydrogen powered if fuel cell technology could be made smaller – a design 3 mm across might do the trick

11:28 07 January 2009  | 2 comments

With better, stronger and faster components, the bionic age has finally arrived, says Julian Smith

10:48 06 January 2009  | 2 comments

A two-legged molecular machine that is designed to walk unaided along a single strand of DNA could soon carry cargo and may one day deliver drugs inside cells

13:18 05 January 2009  | 9 comments

Borrowing a trick used to steer cars without effort could make robotic exoskeletons more reliable and easier to use, a patent application claims

10:50 05 January 2009  | 17 comments

The next generation of particle smashers might be considerably smaller than the Large Hadron Collider – and made almost literally out of thin air

11:00 04 January 2009  | 10 comments

Brain activity that is "scrambled" in deaf cats develops normally if they are fitted with a cochlear implant shortly after birth, say researchers

01:00 03 January 2009  | 50 comments

Contributors to the free online encyclopaedia are motivated by egotism, not altruism, a psychological survey concludes

07:00 02 January 2009  | 8 comments

Need to appear knowledgeable on something you know nothing about? Software that does the hard work for you is the answer, a new patent application claims

19:49 05 January 2009

Could space elevators one day be used to save the planet?

16:12 05 January 2009

Flying insects continue to inspire roboticists. Early in 2008, US researchers added an artificial control system to the brain of moths, effectively creating remote controlled cyborg insects. Meanwhile, others are busy creating winged robots that flap around like real insects.A...

15:24 24 December 2008

Forty years ago, astronauts went into lunar orbit for the first time - they took shifts staying awake and snapped an iconic image of the Earth rising above the Moon