Sci-Tech

Atacama desert could hold secrets of life on Mars

Scientists in Chile believe the discovery of life in the country’s arid Atacama Desert could provide new insights into finding life forms on Mars Last year, US scientists analysing data from a NASA sp

28 February 2017

Sci-Tech

An eye on the sky with a travelling telescope in Kenya

Have telescope, will travel.

27 February 2017

Sci-Tech

Chips in the hand to identify who we are

No bag, no keys, no wallet and no ID.

14 February 2017

Sci-Tech

Scientists in the UK believe they have a blueprint for the first ever quantum computer

For decades world renowned scientists, including Albert Einstein, have argued furiously about quantum physics.

6 February 2017

Sci-Tech

Too much bum time says Experimentarium

Museum where the exhibits interact with you

2 February 2017

USA

Human-pig embryo created by scientists

Scientists in California have managed to successfully grow human cells within a pig embryo.

27 January 2017

World News

The end is nigh 'Doomsday Clock' ticks closer to midnight

'Doomsday Clock' ticks closer to the end of the world

27 January 2017

USA

Science goes rogue: US government agencies tackle Trump on Twitter

Government employees from more than a dozen federal agencies in the United States have opened rogue Twitter accounts

26 January 2017

Italy

Italy earthquakes: 'the situation is critical', geologist tells euronews

Authorities in snowbound central Italy are appealing for help after four strong earthquakes hit the same region battered by devastating and deadly tremors starting last…

18 January 2017

Sci-Tech

3D printing in the kitchen - cooking is set to go digital

Could food be about to go digital?

18 January 2017

United Kingdom

Is Blue Monday really the most depressing day of the year?

Just days after Friday 13 sent superstitious people into a spin, ‘Blue Monday’ was upon us with January 16 promising to be the most depressing day of the year for…

16 January 2017

World News

Watch: Polar bear cam shows Arctic plight

Scientists equip a female polar bear on the ice sheet of the Beaufort Sea with a camera to understand how polar bears live with diminishing ice cover

10 January 2017

Sci-Tech

The plant doctor app helping to identify plant disease

A mobile phone could be set to help farmers identify diseases in their produce.

4 January 2017

Cinema

The Italian laboratory restoring the films of Charlie Chaplin

Eighty years after Charlie Chaplin made the movie classic ‘Modern Times’, the great clown’s movies are being restored at a laboratory in northern Italy.

4 January 2017

United Kingdom

Hold on a second… 2016 will be longer than you thought

Many people have said that 2016 was the worst year yet, but bad news for those of you who agree: 2016 is going to be a whole second longer than 2015.

30 December 2016

Sci-Tech

Making plastics from natural products, not oil

Italian chemists have found a way to make a widely-used industrial chemical from natural, not oil-based products.

24 December 2016

Switzerland

CERN scientists' breakthrough experiment helps unravel mysteries of antimatter

It is just one small step towards understanding one of the great mysteries of the universe - why does anything exist?

21 December 2016

United Kingdom

'Three-parent baby' treatment given go-ahead in UK

Britain becomes the first country in the world to approve a controversial technique to help couples conceive children free of genetic diseases.

15 December 2016

Sci-Tech

HyQ - the four-legged robot for disaster zones

As Italy is slowly recovering from a series of deadly earthquakes, researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology of Genoa are developing a new generation of robots to work in disaster…

9 December 2016

Cinema

"Marie Curie" - the story of a woman who challenged the male-dominated world of science

Marie Curie turned the male-dominated world of science research on its head and courted controversy as she challenged France’s academic establishment.

2 December 2016