FITTING your house with a network of Kinect sensors could mean never losing your wallet, TV remote or other small items again. “We want to make Google for your home,” says Shahriar Nirjon, a computer [...]

The Federation of American Scientists has warned that treating economically sensitive patents like a national security issue would be a mistake More than 5000 US patents have never seen the light of day because their [...]

Our ambition is to allow re-use of the paper In offices the world over, heaps of printouts and photocopies from laser printers get used once before being discarded, or tossed on shelves to collect dust [...]

“We don’t want you to know what everyone else knows” YossarianLives, named after the anti-hero of Catch-22, doesn’t tell you what everyone else knows – it seeks to creatively generate new knowledge. TYPING “love” into [...]

Has the threat of cyberwar entered a significant new phase? Unpicking the burgeoning reports of activity on the digital battlefield   CYBERSPACE. Some call it the new domain of war, after land, sea, air and [...]

IT’S a heavy price to pay for a sweet tooth.   Researchers have tricked glucose-eating cancer cells into consuming a sugar that essentially poisons them – it leaves a “suicide” switch within the cells open [...]

There are an estimated 2.5 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the US alone OLD oil and gas wells might soon be reborn as environmentally friendly geothermal power generators. Geothermal energy holds promise as [...]

GO GO gadget arms! Turbines could soon sport blades that extend and retract to suit wind conditions. Large turbines harvest more energy from the wind than small ones – provided the breeze doesn’t freshen too [...]

Image via Wikipedia This week, engineer Adam Wilson made global headlines by updating Twitter using his brainwaves. “USING EEG TO SEND TWEET” he explained. Wilson’s achievement was actually pretty trivial. He used a system called [...]

Image via Wikipedia A supercapacitor – a device that can unleash large amounts of charge very quickly – has been created using printing technology for the first time. The advance will pave the way for [...]