Basketball, soccer, baseball–these are all fine sports. But wouldn’t they be even more fun if they could be released from the boring, been-there-done-that laws of physics? This is what... Read more
THOUSANDS of diabetics could be effectively “cured” thanks to a major breakthrough by Scottish scientists. Patients could now have an islet cell transplant to prevent life-threatening compli... Read more
“The most exciting thing about this project is that it offers us the potential to restore the function of reefs, both shallow and deep, across the globe, which we all enjoy and benefi... Read more
3-D-printed organs are still decades away from reality Every week, it seems, there’s a new breakthrough in 3-D printing that promises us the ability to (eventually) fabricate some new thing... Read more
A team of scientists from Scotland and the Czech Republic has created a real-life “tractor” beam, as featured in the Star Trek movies, which for the first time allows a beam of light to attr... Read more
Researchers at Heriot-Watt are developing a swarm of intelligent robots to help save coral reefs. A team of ‘coralbots’, each individually working to simple rules, will piece tog... Read more