This dark disc may not look like much, but it is the world’s most efficient nano-structured black silicon solar cell. It can convert an impressive 22.1 per cent of incident light into electricity. Read more >>
Pressure is rising for the world's powers to address the issue of privacy access on digital devices.
A Swedish company claims that this small-scale concentrated solar energy system converts 34 per cent of sunlight into electricity.
While it looks like it could be a car engine, in this image Scott Kelly and Terry Virts performs maintenance on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly that sits in the Japanese Experiment Module. It’s a pretty important piece of kit: it scrubs the air aboard the station to remove the carbon dioxide, allowing those aboard to breathe in safety. No pressure, boys. [NASA]
Able Seaman William McNeilly is being sought by the British Royal Navy after he leaked an 18-page report called “The Secret Nuclear Threat”.
When mice are young, neurons can switch role, literally rewiring the brain—and in this image of a slice of brain, the yellow spots are neurons that have done just that. Read More >>
This video from 2001 showcases what DARPA thought the technology of today would look like. It's not that far from the truth, really. Read More >>
The cars will be rolled out in Google’s home of Mountain View.
Since the Ebola outbreak last year, researchers feared that the virus had been able to evolve at a more rapidly. Now, analysis reveals that it mutated at a perfectly normal rate alleviating those fears.
Video explains the basics of data mining and how it can be used to find valuable treasure hidden among digital rubble.
Give Wolfram Research's Image Identification Project a go, it is surprisingly good.
Take a journey to the core of the sun to learn more about our solar system's source of light.
Google's Dublin office processes thousands of requests from people wanting to be removed from the internet.
This chamber might not look empty—but in fact it’s missing something that usually permeates every space on Earth: magnetic fields. And it will help physicists in the quest for a unifying Theory of Everything.
If this lamp looks somehow familiar, that’s because it’s based on something you see hundreds of times every single say: a single italicised letter i. Read More >>
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