Science/tech

The material "showed the highest hardness of all Ti-Au [titanium-gold] alloys and compounds, but also compared to many other engineering alloys..."

Chris King, 57, lost both his hands - except the thumbs - in an accident involving a metal pressing machine at work three years ago. Now, he has become the first person ...

By 2016, more than 4.5 billion devices use Gorilla Glass, which is created using a technique known as fusion forming. It involves placing the raw materials - sand and "other inorganic material" - into a melting pot...

As a waste water treatment or a renewable energy source, the concept wouldn't have much appeal. But accomplishing both things at once could make tomato power ...

“The positively charged wires will repel the positively charged ions in the solar wind to push the spacecraft along ...

Aquila, with the wingspan of a Boeing 737, remained aloft at low altitudes for 96 minutes, more than three times longer than Facebook originally planned. Facebook had been testing ...

"In the modern world we're subjecting ourselves to much higher speeds, and the body just doesn't have the physiology to absorb the energy when things go wrong..."

“The hourly images of the entire sunlit side of the Earth provided by EPIC will be used to study the daily variations of features over the entire globe, helping us to better understand ...

In its 2015 green energy report, campaign group Greenpeace praised Apple, Google and Facebook for their commitments to the use of 100% renewable energy in their data centers...

The new Pro model appears to include a much wider camera bump, potentially including two sensors. That would suggest that the “Pro” model ...

The repeated attacks have a similarity to the Lizard Squad cyber attacks that were launched at Christmas. That hacking group took down ...

A large collection of early colonial inscriptions written within a cave system in Mona Island have been found by archaeologists from the British Museum ...

Tesla has repeatedly stated that its Autopilot functionality is still in development and is not intended to be used as a fully autonomous driving solution...

The company plans to bring its self-driving cars to the masses by launching its first driverless on the Lyft platform ...

It comes after the US and South Korea said they would deploy an anti-missile system to counter the North's threats. North Korea is barred by UN sanctions from ...