Science & Technology
Sally Ride, the first American woman into space, dies from pancreatic cancer at 61
Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel into space, has died aged 61, 17 months after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. "Sally's historic...
Artificial jellyfish Medusoid created to grow heart muscle cells
Scientists in the US have created a free swimming artificial jellyfish using silicone as a base on which to grow heart muscle cells that...
Chirp birdsong app will become the next Twitter
Chirp, a new app that transmits data via a burst of "digital birdsong", aims to simplify the way users share images and other files...
Clueful watchdog app removed from Apple’s store in mysterious circumstances
Clueful, an app that told iPhone users whether their other apps were breaching data privacy, has been removed from Apple's store in mysterious circumstances. Clueful...
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, described as a “weirdly Earth-like place”
It is well known that Earth is unique as the only planet in the solar system which can sustain life. However, in other respects, Earth...
Les Horribles Cernettes, the first web image band, play final gig
Les Horribles Cernettes, an all-female doo-wop band whose image is believed to have been the first photo uploaded to the fledgling world wide web,...
Glybera gene therapy in approval process in Europe
Europe is on the process of approving a gene therapy for the first time, in what would be a landmark moment for the field. Gene...
How to stay dry in the rain: run or walk?
Physicist Franco Bocci has put forth new ideas in the long-running question of how best to keep dry when moving in the rain. If you...
Microsoft makes the first quarterly loss in its history
Microsoft has made the first quarterly loss in its history after it wrote off some of the value of its online advertising business. The loss...
Mobile phone is the most common way to connect to the internet in China
A new report from China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) found that mobile phones are now the most common way for people to connect...
Grum botnet has been shut down
Grum, a botnet which experts believe sent out 18% of the world's spam email, has been shut down, a security firm said. Grum's control servers were...
Google launches Gmail SMS in Africa
Google has launched Gmail SMS, a text message-based version of its email service, in some of the African countries. Gmail SMS can run on so-called...
YouTube introduces face blurring feature to encourage political dissidents’ free speech
YouTube unveiled yesterday a way for users to automatically blur human faces in videos they upload, a feature that would help protect the identities...
Windows 8 will be launched on October 26
Windows 8 will be released on October 26, Microsoft has revealed. The declaration was made at the firm's annual sales meeting and was published on...
Petermann Glacier calves off an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan
The Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland has calved an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan, scientists say. Images from a NASA satellite show the island...
Apple ordered to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy iPad design
Apple has been ordered by a UK judge to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad, according to the...
Microsoft Office 2013 unveiled in San Francisco
Microsoft has unveiled a touch-ready version of Office, the latest version of the company's market-leading productivity software suite. In San Francisco, Steve Ballmer described Office...
Wild bird trafficking in Solomon Islands, says watchdog
Wildlife trade watchdog Traffic has found that the Solomon Islands has become a hub for "laundering" wild birds into the global captive-bred bird trade. Thousands...
Marissa Mayer, ex-Google executive, appointed as Yahoo new CEO
Marissa Mayer, a former leading Google executive, has been appointed as Yahoo next chief executive. Marissa Mayer, 37, will become the firm's third CEO in...
Rare footage captures real sound of 1953 A-bomb blast in Nevada
Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the American Institute of Physics, has shared a unique video of a blast during America's testing of...
Having regular lie-ins in old age can bring on dementia
Scientists say that having regular lie-ins in old age can bring on dementia. Getting too much or too little sleep increases your mental age by...
Spatial light modulator used to see around corners
Israeli scientists have found a novel way to get images through "scattering" materials such as frosted glass or skin, and even to "see around...
Georgie, first smartphone designed for blind people, launched in UK
Georgie, the first smartphone designed for blind people, has been recently launched in UK. Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted touchscreen and...
MSNBC.com becomes NBCNews.com after Microsoft pulled out of joint venture after 16 years
Microsoft is abandoning the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com after 16 years, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news...
Research in Motion ordered to pay $147M in damages after losing patents case
Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has been ordered to pay $147 million in damages after losing a patents case. A jury in San Francisco...
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