mg22630182.100-1_300[1].jpg A radar-like system that fits inside a Wi-Fi box can record health data and keep tabs on your mood – without you even noticing IT HAPPENS the moment you walk in: without you being aware of it, an undercover system discreetly records your breathing and heartbeat. Welcome ...

dn27434-1_300[1].jpg [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspWdAt4Fbc[/media] News that a Russian spacecraft is spiralling out of control and plunging to Earth may have alarmed you this morning, but don't worry – the situation is more like a missed parcel delivery than a Hollywood apocalypse movi...

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwsVA8K6pqc[/media] In a move that will garner begrudging respect from Bond villains around the world, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos secretly launched an uncrewed rocket to space yesterday from his private launch facility in the Texas desert. Bezos' rocket company,...

PAPER, light thyself. A light-emitting display has been created out of ordinary paper. It could one day make disposable displays for packaging or newspapers, using cheap and environmentally friendly materials. Ludvig Edman from Umeå University in Sweden and his team sprayed six layers of different m...

mg22630182.400-1_300[1].jpg Who you call, what you post on Facebook and where you are will soon all be used by banks to gauge how much money you can borrow WHEN Kyle Meade first moved to the US from Canada, he just couldn't get a loan. "I had no debt, no previous information on me in the US," he sa...

dn27419-1_300[1].jpg It's understandable that some people don't want the world to know what they do online. But could the same apply to data about when they turn on their washing machines or the way they use their freezers? It seems so. A study has found that many people in the UK are worried about...

mg22630182.800-1_300[1].jpg Digital tools haven’t transformed politics as much as we expected. But that’s about to change – and just in time POLITICS is broken. Across the globe, voter turnout has been in decline for decades. The electorate believes that "the parties are all the same, the politicia...

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYYqXY3L2wc[/media] Mighty things come in small packages. The little robots in this video can haul things that weigh over 100 times more than themselves. The super-strong bots – built by mechanical engineers at Stanford University in California – will be presen...

Can a hair really reveal who committed a crime? The FBI has admitted that flawed evidence was accepted in nearly all of the trials that took place over the 1980s and 90s that included hair analysis evidence. Since 2012, the FBI has been reviewing 2600 cases in which hair evidence was among that used...

mg22630172.300-1_300[1].jpg [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ICYcsWZbo[/media] Robots armed with new radiation-sensing cameras are performing surveys in areas of the stricken plant where radiation levels are too high for humans to enter IN THE dark abandoned shell of Fukushima Daiichi nucle...