FEATURE:  18:15 03 December 2008  | 15 comments

The breakthrough promises to put today's gigahertz processors in the shade – if practical hurdles can be overcome

17:25 03 December 2008  | 2 comments

Wide-angle mirrors without potentially dangerous distortion are possible, says a new patent application

12:48 03 December 2008  | 15 comments

Free web access could bring the benefits of the internet to groups currently left behind by the broadband age – but is the plan about to be scuppered?

11:22 03 December 2008  | 2 comments

Feeling glum? New software could predict whether your feelings will descend into full-blown depression within the next year – plus: take the test

22:49 02 December 2008  | 4 comments

XCOR Aerospace says it will sell tickets on its suborbital spaceship for less than half the price of Virgin Galactic

18:00 02 December 2008  | 7 comments

New techniques are making it easier for animators to create realistic hair, and helped create the river in Bjork's latest music video

16:09 02 December 2008  | 18 comments

Camera trickery convinces volunteers that they have swapped bodies with someone else or a mannequin

14:42 02 December 2008  | 62 comments

A new book describes the technologies we need to adopt if we are to win the war against climate change

11:00 03 December 2008

The news that YouTube is launching a search for talented classical musicians made me think of a far more interesting music phenomenon I noticed recently on that site.

15:25 01 December 2008

Should a company that makes electric cars receive state support, even when it's vehicles are only for the rich?

17:23 28 November 2008

The latest generation of prosthetics being developed in the US are incredibly advanced. But the latest piece of research kit is a cheap piece of videogame hardware: the controller to axe-man simulator Guitar Hero