Surgeons perform world’s first human eye transplant
Surgeons in New York have performed the first ever transplant of an entire human eye. In surgery that took 21 hours, they restored large parts of a patient's face and reconnected a…
Inside Apple’s new ‘spaceship’ HQ
Apple's latest product isn't for sale to consumers: It's a new headquarters referred to by Silicon Valley as the ‘spaceship’.…
Dublin engineers developing robot helpers
Roboticists from Trinity College Dublin are designing assistive robots that are stable and mobile, and have improved social interfaces to better interact with humans.…
Single-use, contraceptive injection tested in Africa
U.s.-based global health non-profit organisation, PATH, is testing a single-use contraceptive injection in Africa. The jab uses the Uniject injection system developed in the 1980s to make injections simpler in the developing…
Brain-computer interface allows completely locked-in people to communicate
Scientists develop a way of communicating with patients who are totally paralysed and unable to talk by measuring the blood oxygen levels in their brains to decipher their thoughts.…
Feather drone mimics bird flight
A drone that uses retractable feather wings, mimicking the natural flight of birds, has been designed by researchers in Switzerland.…
Google Urges Africans To Acquire Online Survival Techniques
Google Urges Africans To Acquire Online Survival Techniques…
Car parks could become ‘lungs of the city’
Sucking polluted air out of car parks can lead to significant reductions in the presence of deadly fine particles in the atmosphere, says a Dutch company.…
The drone that lets you ditch the selfie stick
A drone that lives in your phone case is hoping to replace the selfie stick with options and angles way beyond arm's length.…
Wheat grain size boosted by synthetic chemical
Scientists develop a synthetic molecule that has been shown to increase the size and starch content of wheat grains in the lab by up to 20 per cent, with possibly significant implications…
Alzheimer’s drug helps teeth repair themselves, trial shows
Researchers believe they may be close to perfecting a method of encouraging teeth to repair themselves, as Stuart McDill reports, making the filling a thing of the past.…