A wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you're thinking.
Low-tech phone technology allows images to be sent as bitmaps in text messages, opening up applications for the world's poorest.
The prototype could also monitor an elderly driver's aptitude over time.
In this section, we examine the social technologies driving political change in the Arab world.
Are Facebook and Twitter really behind the revolutions shaking the Middle East? Or just artifacts of modern social upheaval? More >
Latest simulation shows that the magnetic nozzles required for antimatter propulsion could be vastly more efficient than previously thought--and built with today's technologies
The ability to teleport photons through 100 kilometres of free space opens the way for satellite-based quantum communications, say researchers
Claims that Twitter can predict the outcome of elections are riddled with flaws, according to a new analysis of research in this area
Researchers are using Google Adwords to test the persuasive power of different messages.
A photon gun capable of reliably producing single photons of different colours could become an important building block of a quantum internet
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