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A DNA-powered PC may not be on the horizon, but DNA can still compute even if it can’t build a computer.
The idea that our universe is just one in a ‘multiverse’ of parallel universes is increasingly gathering attention from cosmologists. But can we ever test the theory?
When silicon circuits shrink too small to handle electrons, the future of electronics is spintronics.
Quantum computing may still have the status of a rank outsider, but it’s making gains.
A new model suggests that elliptical galaxies are more likely to be habitable than spiral galaxies like our own. Does that mean we’re a freak event and elsewhere is teeming with life?
Technology can work for us, or against us. Sometimes both at the same time.
There’s no evidence that cloud cover affects bowling at all, but everyone involved with cricket seems to think it does.
Astronauts living on the ISS get to experience the wonders of the universe’s natural phenomena like no one else.
Are you a neurotic who overthinks just about everything? Congratulations, it may mean that you could become hugely successful in a creative job.
Silicon isn’t the perfect semiconductor, it’s just the one we’re using. How can we ensure our electronics keep get getting faster in the face of silicon’s natural physical limits?
Take two phone books and lie them face up, with the spines facing away from each other. Then interleave the pages and try to pull the books apart. You will fail.
People arguing that a ban on mammoth ivory would help save elephants from extinction are wrong. Here’s why.
Ghoulish obsession with flames, death and grief among the media obscures how safe we really are.
Scientists seem to have cracked the code behind the heritability of obesity.
The first loss of life among airshow spectators since 1952, any changes to rules that follow will make them safer still.
Google and the media have done their bit to try and subvert the right to be forgotten, but an ICO ruling suggests its beginning to take notice.
Ice is everywhere in the solar system and there may even be liquid water beneath the surface of a number of planets. But could we ever get to it?
While fallout from the Ashley Madison hack continues to spread, it’s worth remembering that views on infidelity have not always been so severe.
The desktop interface originated in the 1970s and was exemplified by the arrival of Windows 95. Surely there’s a better approach, 20 years on?
Scientists have been trying to track down the ingredients of dark matter and dark energy for a long time. The search has now taken a leap forward thanks to two new laboratory experiments.
Poor-quality crypto puts millions of car owners at risk – so why did UK courts help try to cover it up?
Modern GPS has revealed the line used to calculate map coordinates and time zones is in accurate. Whether that really matters is another question.
How a bunch of pebbles could have created Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.
The Internet Watch foundation is to share its database of abusive image digital signatures in a drive to clean up the internet.