The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator, and in just a few months time it’s going to be more powerful ...
June 24, 2014 at 9:13 am by Peter Donnell
When humans set their mind to a task, there isn’t much that can stand in our way, and that includes the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile. Yesterday a huge section of ...
June 21, 2014 at 10:58 am by Peter Donnell
The D-Wave 2 quantum computer released on a wave of hype, it had a lot of potential to revolutionise the industry, and at just $15 million each, the systems were available to ...
June 20, 2014 at 9:33 am by Peter Donnell
Every now and then something comes along which just makes you think “isn’t that incredible?”. NASA’s recently disclosed video that is a time-lapse of ...
June 16, 2014 at 5:52 pm by Ryan Martin
While some things can seem like science fiction, such as moving through space at warp speeds like seen in TV series such as Star Trek, there are still people in this world ...
June 12, 2014 at 9:36 am by Peter Donnell
Like many humans, I get an odd sense of satisfaction of watching things blow up in slow motion, be that a can of Cola packed with TNT, or a balloon filled with Hydrogen, ...
June 12, 2014 at 9:11 am by Peter Donnell
It looks like fillings could well become a thing of the past if the latest research is anything to go by. A team of scientists from Harvard published a study in the Journal of ...
May 30, 2014 at 3:12 pm by Ryan Martin
Why does Bacon smell so good? This question is probably up there with the most important questions of all time such as “what is the meaning of life?”, “does ...
May 28, 2014 at 12:22 pm by Ryan Martin
Teams of scientists from MIT, Harvard and many other great institutions have created what is now the best simulation of the universe ever created, it’s not perfect, but ...
May 9, 2014 at 9:59 am by Peter Donnell
Since its early days 3D printing has come one heck of a long way, both in terms of its physical abilities, but also the cost of manufacturing along with the cost of purchasing ...
April 28, 2014 at 11:06 pm by Chris Hadley
When it comes to generating electricity out of water, most people probably think of dams and the use of the water pressure to turn large turbines and generate electricity by ...
April 15, 2014 at 11:00 pm by Ian Viado
Once again the debate on whether or not there is or has been water on Mars has again come to light, with Scientists studying images of dark streaks on the planet’s ...
February 17, 2014 at 9:42 am by Peter Edward
At some point today the defunct Russian satellite Kosmos-1220 will be returning to Earth, unfortunately experts have no idea where the fragments will land, although it is most ...
February 16, 2014 at 10:54 am by Peter Donnell
While still a long way from being commercially available, nuclear fusion is still being pursued as one of the most promising energy sources for mankind. While we may be ...
February 13, 2014 at 12:54 pm by Peter Donnell
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute in Lausanne and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Italy have reported that a bionic hand has been successfully wired into ...
February 6, 2014 at 10:24 am by Peter Donnell
