It’s time for parents to reclaim their tablet devices as educational toy brand LeapFrog unveils the highly anticipated LeapPad Explorer – just for kids!
At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than some missions last, and still has four more years of travel to go.
The East Midlands Forensic Pathology unit, based at the University of Leicester, has used 3D images derived from post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) scans as an aid to demonstrate injuries to a jury for the first time in evidence at a UK trial.
After 30 years of development, the UK and European space agencies have given a go for the Skylon Spaceplane.
The Gömböc was invented by Hungarian mathematicians, and is the world's only artificial, self-righting shape. It's what's called a mono-monostatic shape, and was born of a mathematical theory.
Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests of "killer paper," a material intended for use as a new food packaging material that helps preserve foods by fighting the bacteria that cause spoilage.
A team of computer engineers and scientists at the University of Michigan have made a prototype of what they believe is the world's smallest computer. A prototype implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients is believed to contain the first complete millimetrescale computing system.
On 22 October the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) dedicated the nearly two-mile long “Governor Bill Richardson Spaceway” at Spaceport America, representing significant progress toward launching commercial customers into space from the desert of New Mexico.
In a paper entitled A Novel Ray Analogy for Enrolment of Ear Biometrics scientists from the University of Southampton’s school of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) described how a technique called the image ray transform can highlight tubular structures such as ears, making it possible to ident
Scientists reported progress recently in using a common virus to develop improved materials for high-performance, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that could be woven into clothing to power portable electronic devices.