Police and fire departments around the U.S. are using high-tech drones for emergency response situations stoking fears about the aircraft's misuse.
Private shipping company SpaceX ferries supplies to the International Space Station as part of a contract with NASA but nearly failed to deliver on its last shipment. Their Dragon capsule experienced a malfunction related to its solar panels, but cruised toward a rendezvous with the orbiting lab March 3 with the help of a robotic arm 250 miles above Ukraine. ...read
Supercapacitors made from graphene (pictured) can charge and discharge thousand times faster than conventional batteries.
Tech giants Samsung and Apple will face off yet again after a federal judge ordered them to return
to court and slashed more than $450 million from a judgement Samsung had been ordered to pay Apple.
Sir Robin Jacob (pictured) will testify on behalf of Samsung during the US International Trade Commission investigation into the company's patent dispute with Ericsson.
The belts can often swell dramatically in response to solar storms and other space weather, posing serious dangers to communications and GPS satellites, as well as humans in space.
According to current calculations, comet C/2013 A1 is set for a near miss that will bring it within 23,000 miles of Mars, but astronomers expect its orbit to change unpredictably.
Agenesis of the corpus callosum was part of the mysterious brain physiology of Laurence Kim Peek, the remarkable savant portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the 1987 movie Rain Man (pictured).
Biologists at Tufts University surgically removed the eyes of donor tadpoles and grafted them onto the posterior of recipient tadpoles - and found they could still see.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule developed by PayPal billionaire Elon Musk has developed a problem on its way to the International Space Station.
The heart of Richard the I (pictured) was buried with mint, frankincense, mercury, creosote, lime and daisies, experts have revealed.
Duke University researchers linked the brains of a rat in the US with one in Brazil - and found the rodents could communicate.
Engineers have been forced to suspend the rover's work while they attempt to restore a corrupted computer. The team said the rover had been placed in a 'safe mode' to protect it. The rover has been switched to a backup computer system while engineers try and fix the problem.
The 18kg (40-pound) meteorite in eastern Antarctica, is the largest found in the area in 25 years. The Brussels-based team described their find as 'special', and hope it could help explain how the solar system formed.
The long-awaited budget iPhone will just £220 ($330), according to reports - roughly half the cost of a full-blown version of the iconic smartphone.
MIT researchers recreated Mercury rocks on Earth to try and solve a mystery of what the planet's history was - and found an ocean of magma was the most likely explanation.
A British company today launched the smart labels that 'activate' when a package is opened and change colour using a traffic light system to indicate whether the contents are still safe to eat.
Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute developed the camera and accompanying image processing software which can show a clear image even if the ball spins in flight.
The Google boss (pictured) told a stunned audience at the TED conference in Long Beach he saw phone users as 'hunched up, looking down, rubbing a featureless piece of glass.'
Science writer Brian Switek, author of My Beloved Brontosaurus, has attempted to explain what baseball star Jose Conseco got so wrong on Twitter last week.
Helicoprion, an early ancestor of sharks, had a conveyor belt of jagged teeth that spiralled out of its lower jaw and ripped prey to shreds, Idaho researchers found.
Norwegian researchers say their findings show how the same stimulus can be interpreted very differently, and that the experience is connected to expectation and context.
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Elderly people who have difficulty remembering their way home could benefit from a new Android-powered walking stick with built in sat-nav. Fujitsu's Next Generation Cane is designed to help the aged find their way around the city, as well as monitor vital signs like heart rate and body temperature. Concerned family members can also follow the smart cane's location online and receive email alerts of the device suspects its user may have fallen over.
The toys, available in a range of sizes and colours, have a small switch on them so owners can turn off the 'squeak' when they have had enough.
Multimillionaire space enthusiast Dennis Tito announced today his ambitious and audacious $1 billion plan to send a married couple on a round-trip visit to Mars in just five-years time.
Italian researchers have unveiled a prototype camera that uses digital holography to let firefighters 'see' people trapped beyond the flames.
Students studying bacteriology at the University of Surrey imprinted their mobile phones onto Petri dishes to see what they might carry.
The low frequency waves emitted by the gargantuan blast were not audible to the human ear, but were recorded by a network of sensors as they travelled across continents.
Smartphones and tablet computers, small and light enough to be grasped in the hands, have changed not only the way we work but also the way we sit, American researchers have found.
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.
The fascinating image shows the path of Nasa's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. The image was captured over 51 months as engineers tweaked the craft's path as it captured on the Vela pulsar.
The seven watt laser it is used to generate an artificial star about 90 kilometres up in the atmosphere, which astronomers use to help focus a giant telescope in the Chilean desert.
The Myo wristband goes on sale later this year from Silicon Valley firm Thalmic Labs, and detects the electrical activity from muscles so wearers can control a computer using natural gestures.
Rival experts had said the evidence linking the bones to the princess was circumstantial, and even the researcher who found them admits they have been handled too many times to get a reliable DNA test result.
Researchers at Goldsmiths say their research gives a 'tantalising insight' into what makes a good learner.
Researchers found the activity in parts of the brain that deal with vision and decision-making - needed to tackle a right-hand turn - is 'significantly reduced' when chatting.
The app, unveiled at the TED conference in California, analyses the colour of specially developed 'dipsticks' which are placed in a cup of urine.
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