A retinal implant - or bionic eye - which is powered by light has been invented by scientists at Stanford University in California. 
Driverless cars are set to hit the roads of Nevada as Google is granted the first US autonomous vehicle licence. Coming our way soon I hope! 
Neurons in the brains of pigeons encode the direction of Earth's magnetic field, endowing the birds with an innate internal... 
Here's an anatomical packing list for making that historic trip from water to land circa 370 million years ago: Lungs? Check. Legs? Check. Patches of highly vascular bone in the skin? 
Having attractive friends will make you more popular on Facebook, especially if you are a woman, according to a new study that takes Charles Darwin into the domain of cyber networking. Hmmm, hope you don't all unfriend me :( 
Scientists have discovered multiple gene switches in Salmonella that offer new ways to curb human infection. Salmonella bacteria use a variety of proteins that act as weapons to hijack and attack human cells. Despite many decades of research throughout the world, little was understood about the way that Salmonella genes that control this weapon system are switched on. Now Professor Hinton's team has used a new approach to identify the switches of the Salmonella Typhimurium genes. The exciting new findings show that Salmonella bacteria have more than 1,800 switches, called 'promoters' and reveals how they work. 
Researchers go hunting for the source of the highest-energy particles we know of, and rule out one of the two presumed sources. 
(Phys.org) -- Astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emission from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous record for the lowest... 
(Phys.org) -- Low cost solar cells suitable for rooftop panels could reach a record-breaking 40 percent efficiency following an early stage breakthrough by a University of Sydney researcher and his German partners. 
Several human species have evolved on Earth so why did only ours survive? "Even 100,000 years ago, we've still got several human species on Earth and that's strange for us. We're the only survivors of all of those great evolutionary experiments in how to be human," says Stringer. 
A frenzied desire to be first inspired Darwin and Einstein to bursts of creativity. Ian McEwan reflects on originality and collaboration In 1858 and 1915, Darwin and Einstein, driven in part by the somewhat ignoble or worldly ambition to be first, redirected not only the course of science, but redefined our sense of ourselves. These twin revolutions, barely 60 years apart, represent the most profound as well as the most rapid shift and dislocation in human thought that has ever occurred. 
When faced with life-or-death situations, bacteria — and maybe even human cells — use an extremely sophisticated version of "game theory" to consider their options and decide upon the best course of action, scientists reported here today. |
Take top thinkers from Silicon Valley and science, mix them with a heavy dose of utopianism and showmanship, and you've got the Singularity University – on a mission to seek technological solutions to the world's great challenges, writes Carole Cadwalladr...
"the rate of innovation is a function of the number of people actually communicating and this is growing explosively with the internet". 
Companies are embracing HTML5 to let them create visually-interesting and interactive websites and apps, says Ian Hardy... HTML5 also represents another step to the "semantic web", a web structure championed by Tim Berners-Lee that cross-references, reacts to and displays multiple information sources from the internet in real time. 
You might see pigeons as dirty, dumb animals, but your feathered friends are much smarter than they appear. New research... 
Researchers confirm that the wounds on Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old frozen mummy found in the Alps in 1991, contain the oldest known traces of blood. According to analysis of my DNA, I am a related desendant of Oetzi. How cool is that! 
The chances of rogue fractures due to shale gas fracking operations extending beyond 0.6 kilometres from the injection source is a fraction of one percent, according to new research led by Durham University. At last, a starting point! 
Scientists have uncovered clues as to how our genomes became riddled with viruses. The study, supported by the Wellcome Trust, reveals important information about the so–called 'dark matter' of our genome. For years scientists have been struggling with the enigma that more than 90 percent of every mammal's genome has no known function. A part of this 'dark matter' of genetic material is known to harbour pieces of DNA from ancient viruses that infected our ancestors going back as far as the age of the dinosaurs. 
Student reaches for the moon in out-of-this-world project... Aaron Bonanno has found a way to make the improbable possible and has designed a renewable energy system to power a futuristic moon colony.
Out of all the possible molecules in the world, just two form the basis of life’s grand variety: DNA and RNA. They alone can store and pass on genetic information. Just astonishing! 
When early humans became carnivores, their higher-quality diet allowed mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children, with potentially profound effects on population dynamics and the course of human evolution, according to a study published...
Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian skeptic, went to Mumbai and revealed that a "miraculous" weeping cross was really just a bit of statuary located near a leaky drain whose liquid reached it by way of capillary action.
Some people are so easily duped - especially if they have never studied physics. 
The Syria Tracker website uses automated data mining and crowdsourced human intelligence to estimate the death toll in Syria's bloody conflict... 
An Oxford philosopher argues that we are not adequately accounting for technology's risks -- but his solution to the problem is not for Luddites. |
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