Science & Tech
6 Feb 2017
Roboticists from Trinity College Dublin are designing assistive robots that are stable and mobile, and have improved social interfaces to better interact with humans.
3 Feb 2017
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 world.
1 Feb 2017
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.
31 Jan 2017
A drone that uses retractable feather wings, mimicking the natural flight of birds, has been designed by researchers in Switzerland.
31 Jan 2017
Google Urges Africans To Acquire Online Survival Techniques
26 Jan 2017
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.
24 Jan 2017
A drone that lives in your phone case is hoping to replace the selfie stick with options and angles way beyond arm's length.
24 Jan 2017
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 for global food security.
18 Jan 2017
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.
16 Jan 2017
Japanese researchers warn of fingerprint theft from 'peace' signs in digital photographs.
13 Jan 2017
Japan's mobile phone company installs toilet rolls for smartphones at airport bathrooms.
12 Jan 2017
London-based start-up Aeropowder is developing a method to turn thousands of tonnes of waste chicken feathers into useful materials, including an effective thermal insulator.
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