The 29in bicycle tyres consist of a layer of rubber held taught by carbon nano tube reinforced composite rods to provide cushioning.
The study of over 1500 UK motorists found a self park button was top of the technological wishlist, along with voice commands. It also found people were keen for in-car digital radios to become commonplace ...read
Liverpool scientists found warmer temperatures cause greater reduction in the adult sizes of aquatic animals than in land-dwellers.
Chemotherapy drugs target and kill all cells in the process of replicating - cancerous or not - causing hair-loss, pain and a weakened immune system.
New research suggests timekeeping in the brain is decentralised, with different neural circuits having their own timing mechanisms for specific activities.
Developed in California, the new tomato has been shown to mimic the effects of good cholesterol in mice.
University of Vienna researchers found Figaro fashions wooden ‘rakes’ out of beams and sticks and uses them inch pieces of food within reach.
Photographer Deb Morris specialises in capturing tiny waves breaking on the Australian coast in what she calls Waveart.
The study, reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, shows how subtle manipulations that affect the way people take in information can colour their response.
Built according to the classic, proven rocking chair design, the seat - which its makers have dubbed the iRock - uses a built-in generator that transforms gentle swaying into electricity.
Government scientists want every plant sold in Britain and the EU to be inspected and provided with labels to guarantee they are free of pests and blight.
The London-based architecture graduate believes his controversial building material could replace mud bricks used in less-developed countries.
Researchers at the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee say the new material could change our understanding of how plants grow and help produce more efficient crops. They also hope to make it cheap enough for use in homes.
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By simply thinking 'climb stairs' - Zac Vawter (pictured) made his way up 103 flights of stairs to the top of Willis Tower in Chicago on the revolutionary prosthetic leg. The robotic leg responds to electrical impulses from muscles in his hamstring, with his thoughts triggering motors, belts and chains to synchronise the movements of the prosthetic ankle and knee.
An emerging view proposes that asteroid collisions with planets may provide a boost to the birth and evolution of complex, intelligent life.
Researchers found that workers happy with their pay are less likely to have work and family conflicts, flexible working hours and working from really could have a bigger impact
The car, developed in Japan, would be akin to the invisible Aston Martin Vanquish (pictured) that James Bond drives across a frozen lake in a high-speed car race.
Scientists have identified a brain region which can switch us between new and old habits, raising questions about how automatic habitual behaviours really are.
Scientists studying human genetic ancestry have found that, like modern Eurasian peoples, modern North Africans also carry genetic traces which suggest some Neanderthal ancestry.
The National Hurricane Center had an average error in its track forecast three days into the future for Sandy of just 71 miles, which dropped to only 48 miles within two days of it hitting.
Research shows records have airbrushed women soldiers out of history as they do not fit the prevailing notion of men as protectors and women as weak.
The South Korean firm also revealed last week it has sold3 million of its big screen Note phones in 37 days.
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The well-travelled cassette, which contains classics from the likes of the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, and Credence Clearwater Revival, is just one space artefact up for auction from November 21. Apollo 14 was the eighth mission manned lunar mission and the tape would have been grooved along to by Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell.
Koshik the elephant was recorded at a zoo in South Korea imitating human speech for words that translate into English as 'hello', 'sit down', 'no', 'lie down' and 'good'.
A theory that humans evolved longer adult lifespans because grandmothers helped feed their grandchildren has been proved by a computer simulation, scientists claim.
Georgian experts tricked a man they claim has been targeting their networks by hiding the virus inside a file titled 'Georgian-Nato Agreement'.
Caffeine is the world's most commonly consumed psychoactive drug and an active ingredient in a range of different foods and drinks.
Apple's £269 iPad mini sold out online within hours - and a new analysis has found the gadget costs Apple just £117 to make.
Patricia Putt and Kim Whitton, both of whom use their claimed powers to earn a living, had accepted the challenge set by scientists at Goldsmiths University as a fair test of their abilities.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, the researcher who discovered the bizarre patterns, says they are evidence of a comprehensive geological survey, including the widespread digging of trenches and boreholes to map the extent of the ore. The amateur archeologist made the discovery of an 8km long line of squares in the desert just south of the town of Ruoqiang using Google Earth satellite images. If she is right, this part of China seems set to become an important centre for mining.
A team from Chicago found that fear of maths can activate regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical pain.
Racing fans can interact with footage captured on a Norwegian-designed spherical camera strapped to an F1 car, rotating the angle at will.
The Ohio researchers found that when we put ourselves into someone else’s shoes, the part of the brain used for cold, hard analysis is suppressed.
Alan Detrich bought the skull from a colleague who unearthed it near Buffalo, New York, and is planning to clean it up and attach it to the body of another Triceratops before selling it on.
The 1,000 Genomes Project which compares the DNA of participants from fourteen different populations helps researchers understand why some people may be more susceptible to inherited disease or other genetic conditions.
The glass portholes stitched directly into the rodents' abdominal walls are intended to help researchers track how cancer cells spread to form secondary tumours.
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