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Firefighters entering burning buildings, athletes competing in the broiling sun and workers in foundries may eventually be able to carry their own, lightweight cooling units with them, thanks to a nanowire array that coo...

Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory. The 1970s were a heady time in particle physics. New accelerators in the United States and Europe turned up unexpected particles th...

The science of having to pee real bad.

Three Swedish companies are piloting grocery delivery all the way to the refrigerator. All it takes is a Glue smart lock, an ICA grocery store, and the PostNord delivery service. Access to the home is granted with a digi...

Sundar Pichai says the next big evolution for technology will be artificial intelligence.          

Working in a crowded office quickly teaches you the value of an open meeting room, but dealing with meeting room schedules will always and likely forever be a hassle. So a company called Joan is trying to make it at leas...

Many Mac users running a modern version of OS X El Capitan have noticed the Secure Erase Free Space feature has gone missing from Disk Utility. What the “Erase Free Space” feature did (and still does in prior version...

ONE of the most annoying features of smartphones is that they run out of power just when you need it most. After a day of e-mailing, streaming music, downloading podcasts, watching cat videos and snapping selfies, a devi...

A SET of straight and gleaming teeth makes for a beautiful smile. But how many people who have undergone a little dental maintenance know that they may have inside their mouths some of the first products of a new industr...

DARPA announced on Tuesday that it has awarded contracts to eight organizations to develop more intelligent, more agile ground vehicles that aren't burdened by extra armor. The problem that the Defense Advanced Research ...

Twenty-seven of 29 patients with an advanced type of leukemia that had proved resistant to multiple other forms of therapy went into remission after their T cells (disease-fighting immune cells) were genetically engineer...

Microsoft has partnered with a San Francisco-based company to encode information on synthetic DNA to test its potential as a new medium for data storage. Twist Bioscience will provide Microsoft with 10 million DNA strand...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has sold his stake in Apple, citing concerns about the giant tech company's prospects in China

As much as the headlines proclaim "virtual reality is here," it has also only just arrived. Samsung Gear VR was released in November; this month is the initial launch of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift; and Playstation VR i...

DURING the first world war it was observed that when armour plating was hit by shrapnel some of the bits not only embedded themselves into the metal but ended up welded to it, a process that normally takes a great deal o...

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 Like so many organizations today, Infosys, the Indian consulting giant, is a company in transition. For years it has made a good living helping customers manage legacy tools, but CEO Vishal Sikka, who took over 21 mont...

Astronauts are being instructed on "part-task trainers" for the new CST-100 crew transport spacecraft being developed by Boeing. The training includes: launch, landing and docking to the International Space Station simul...

 You know it’s not just any old Chromebook when Google and HP team up for the thing’s product launch. And indeed, the HP Chromebook 13 looks to be a pretty compelling alternative to the MacBook upgrade Apple ushered...

The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX announced on Twitter today that it plans to send its robotic Dragon capsule to Mars as early as 2018.

 One of the major promises of virtual reality is the ability to find yourself transported to exotic locations. Nothing is quite so exotic as the final frontier. SpaceVR wants to launch high-definition 360-degree cameras...

Huawei is currently offering an enticing deal on the company's smartwatch at vMall. Should you purchase the Huawei Watch through the UK or select European online stores, you'll be able to take advantage of a £80 (or equ...