This might be the biggest tech humblebrag ever. A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs has quietly shrugged its shoulders and admitted to the fact that, yeah, it's been using quantum internet for, like, the last two years. Whatever. Read More >>

This little guy might not look much, but he's the world's smallest flying robotic insect — and he's taken 12 years to get into the air. Read More >>

Most of your exposure to silk probably comes in the form of uncomfortably sensual linens or cobwebs in a dusty old closet. In reality, though, silk is an incredible and overlooked material. While it may have roots in the ancient past, it could also form the building blocks of the future. Read More >>

Graphene is touted as being the supermaterial to beat all supermaterials—but not so fast! Researcher have discovered a weakness that occurs in many sheets of graphene that renders it half as strong as we thought. Read More >>

Common sense dictates that you don't want to be anywhere near a concrete pylon when the load it's bearing is too much: when all that weight comes crashing down, you'll find out quickly how much weight your body can shoulder as well. Read More >>

Imagine if silicon chips were smaller than a grain of sand and could be made using a laser printer: everything under the Sun could be made unobtrusively smart. But that's not science fiction, and you don't have to imagine too hard — because researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre have already done it. Read More >>

The world's hottest new supermaterial isn't as fancy as you might think; in fact, it's produced by feeding wood pulp to algae. The result, nanocellulose, is amazingly light, super-strong, and conducts electricity. Unsurprisingly, that versatility lends it to plenty of fantastic possible applications. Here are some of the most exciting. Read More >>

In the horological world, Skeleton watches are some of the most tricky to design and build since all of the timepiece's inner workings are completely exposed and visible at all times. They can also be a great teaching aide, which is why Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet hired artist Krzysztof J. Lukasik to create this tool that lets watch owners learn more about the investment. Read More >>

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, has created the first ever pair of graphene-based earphones. It might not surprise you to find out that they're utterly incredible. Read More >>

Any professional sporting venue hoping to stay profitable is designed to accommodate a varying sports so it's always in use. And in an attempt to reduce the wasted hours often needed to convert a field, a pair of Dutch companies have developed the 4D Sportsground, which uses rotating three-sided segments to almost instantly transform it for different activities. Read More >>

Meet Mark Elvin. He's a man who has the exact job that young children the world over dream of -- he works on Bloodhound SSC, the totally British and totally awesome project to make a car that goes faster than the speed of sound. The actual speed of sound. Read More >>

If you mange to get yourself electrocuted, you probably won't care too much what type of electricity is pumping through your body. But this video takes a playful look at whether AC or DC current will hurt more when that day comes. Read More >>

Graphene doesn't need any introduction: it's the super material to beat 'em all. But this beautiful video demonstrates how it could transform the future of the gadgets you use everyday. Read More >>

A crashing computer is at best annoying and at worst catastrophic. But now a team of scientists has developed a new type of computer that never crashes — and it relies on chaos and randomness to achieve the feat. Read More >>

Scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute are squeezing unparalleled amounts of data in to synthetic DNA, and now they've achieved something absolutely amazing: they can store 2.2 petabytes of information in a single gram of DNA, and recover it with 100 per cent accuracy. Read More >>