These Are Some of the Best Astronomy Pictures of the Year
Last night, the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition announced its winners. The results, as you might expect, are astronomical. Here are a few of our favourites. See more >>
Last night, the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition announced its winners. The results, as you might expect, are astronomical. Here are a few of our favourites. See more >>
If you said 'yes' – go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect £200.
The banks of the mighty Mississippi river are usually lush and green but in this image, captured by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2A, radar imaging shows vegetation in bright red. That's a lot of vegetation. Read more >>
Whether you need to move furniture around or are just too lazy to use a tape measure, flexible storage is very useful.
The overall rate of malaria infections in Africa has fallen by 50 per cent since 2000 and researchers claim that’s largely the result of a very simple technology indeed: bed nets.
Looking like a scene from Tron, this is the the guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely as it sails through the Atlantic Ocean on training operations. The MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter sits atop the ship as it refuels, while sailors take part in a training exercise with the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group. [U.S. Navy]
The hacking saga appears to have hit the likes of NATO, the US and global think-tanks.
Get ready for the launch.
Get saving those pennies!
Death Spray Custom is an artist from rural Wales whose excellent, witty and memorable paint style appears on everything from petrol cans to crash helmets. Watch him in action >>
Maybe the digital assistant can come up with a snappier name for the project, too.
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed's Sunday night science project is being viewed as a potential terrorist threat.
This is a transistor, but not as you know it. Instead of acting as a tiny switch to control the flow of electrons, this devices controls the flow of living cells.
The advance could help see microscopic objects like molecules with more clarity than ever.
Is this thing on?
Honestly, it's more interesting than it sounds.
