Science & Technology
Venus transit of the Sun visible from Earth today
Venus is set to move across the face of the Sun as viewed from Earth in a more than six-and-a-half-hour transit, which starts just...
Giant cosmic explosion from 774 AD left traces only in two cedar trees rings
Scientist Fusa Miyake from Nagoya University, Japan, studied the growth rings of two trees dating back 1,200 years and discovered that an explosion of...
Miiverse, Nintendo’s Wii U social network, presented ahead of E3 video games conference
A video presentation released ahead of the E3 video games conference has showed that Nintendo's new Wii U console will embrace social networking. Wii U...
Paralyzed rats able to walk again after spinal stimulation
Scientists have shown that paralyzed rats have been able to walk again after their spinal cords were bathed in chemicals and zapped with electricity. An...
Hubble Space Telescope works out on when Milky Way will crash into Andromeda
Hubble Space Telescope has been used to work out on when precisely our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its neighbor, Andromeda, astronomers announce. Milky...
Windows 8 Release Preview: Microsoft launches the most complete preview of its latest OS
Microsoft launches the most complete preview yet of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Microsoft said that tens of thousands of improvements have been made...
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the ocean
SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule has splashed down in the ocean off the California coast. The return to Earth completes a historic first mission to the...
iPhone 5 leaked image revealed by 9to5Mac as rumors point to a June 11 announcement
Established Apple site 9to5Mac revealed a leaked image of what is claimed to be the iPhone 5, and the site, which has a good...
Supervolcanoes may form and erupt in just hundreds of years
Supervolcanoes, the largest volcanoes on Earth, may take as little as a few hundred years to form and erupt. Supervolcanoes were thought to exist for...
Orange unveils Europe’s first Intel Inside smartphone
Everything Everywhere has unveiled the Europe's first "Intel Inside" smartphone. The San Diego handset is powered by Intel's single-core Atom Z2460 processor and runs Google's...
ACTA back under scrutiny as European Parliament prepares to carry out key votes
The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back under scrutiny as the European Parliament prepares to carry out a series of key votes. ACTA seeks...
SpaceX Dragon capsule returns to Earth after one week attached to ISS
SpaceX cargo capsule Dragon returns to Earth on Thursday having spent a week attached to the International Space Station. The unmanned vehicle will fall through...
Touchless gaming technology in trial for delicate keyhole surgery
British doctors from St Thomas’ hospital in London are trialling "touchless" technology, often used in TV games, to help them carry out delicate keyhole...
Tomato genome sequencing promises tastier varieties
An international research team has announced that a successful sequencing of the tomato genome will lead to tastier varieties within five years. They believe that the...
Sky Broadband blocks access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site
Sky Broadband has decided to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay (TPB). It follows Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere which have already taken...
Tuatara has steak-knife teeth and chews like no other land animal
Tuatara, a reptile living in New Zealand, has a unique way of chewing its food, say scientists who have studied its jaws in detail. This...
Chromebook and Chromebox are updated with faster processors, Google announces
Google announces that Chromebook and Chromebox, its computers using Chrome operating system, have been updated with faster processors. The Samsung-manufactured laptop and desktop PCs include...
Samsung Galaxy S3 faces shipping delays for blue models
Customers who pre-ordered new smartphone Samsung Galaxy S3 face weeks of delays in receiving their handsets. Samsung signalled that it had faced issues in manufacturing...
Early stage osteoporosis detection technique developed by NASA
NASA scientists have discovered a new technique to detect osteoporosis bone loss at the earliest disease stages. Currently, the condition can go undetected for years...
Bluefin tuna at record radioactive contamination from Fukushima nuclear accident
A record radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident has been detected in Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California. Bluefin tuna...
Facebook smartphone to be launched in 2013
New reports have suggested that Facebook is to launch its own smartphone by next year. The New York Times cited unnamed sources, including Facebook employees,...
Flame, a massive targeted cyber-attack discovered by Russian researchers
Russian researchers have discovered a complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran. Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs said...
SceneTap app accused of privacy invasion by female bar customers
SceneTap smartphone app is receiving complaints from female bar customers after they realized the program has the potential to stalk them and send creepy...
Olympicene, molecular image of the Olympic rings
An international research team has succeeded in taking an amazing image of a newly synthesized molecule called olympicene. The molecule - just over a billionth...
Weibo, “China’s Twitter”, introduces new message restrictions
Weibo, “China's Twitter”, has introduced a code of conduct explicitly restricting the type of messages that can be posted. China's biggest microblogging service took the...
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