Science/tech

Scientists have found a link between patients who received nerve-tissue grafts several decades ago and the presence of a protein in the brain that is normally seen in the earliest stages ...

Mr Obama's executive actions included background checks for all gun sellers and the requirement that states provide information on people disqualified from buying guns due to ...

After decades of building pirate ships, race cars and haunted castles, Lego has come up with something new a wheelchair The Danish toymaker has unveiled its first ever disabled minifigure on Thursday The fig

That makes him the sixth-richest person in the world behind Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim Helu (who’s worth $49.5 billion, according to Forbes)...

"What is so special is this type of graph is unknown from antiquity - so making figures of motion in this rather abstract space of velocity against time - this is something very, very new..."

The achievement was announced to coincide with the publication of a paper, in the scientific journal Nature, detailing the techniques ...

In a post to the Anonymous for Justice Facebook page, a relatively small community among numerous Anonymous pages, "hacktivists" belonging to the Blink Hackers Group posted a screenshot ...

"We're getting close, and in the past six months we've built an AI that can make moves in as fast as 0.1 secs and still be as good as previous systems that took years to build..."

"They must not have lived their lives in a very dense environment. They are so tenuously bound together that any nearby star would have disrupted their orbit completely..."

“Marvin was one of the very few people in computing whose visions and perspectives liberated the computer from being a glorified adding machine to start to realize its destiny..."

The findings build on the news at the end of 2014 that experts had discovered how to make huge quantities of insulin-producing cells. The man who led ...

Twitter's stock has fallen nearly 50 percent since Dorsey's return last year and is now trading below its IPO price amid concern the company has failed to significantly boost its user base despite...

The Microsoft tycoon will travel to Liverpool with the chancellor to see groundbreaking scientific research into drugs, diagnostics and insecticides as Mr Osborne locks in support from Britain’s aid budget until...

Japan's Toshiba Corp plans to sell part of its chip business as it aims to recover from a $13 billion accounting scandal, Reuters reports citing informed sources The electronics conglomerate has started a

An agreement for US firm Google to pay £130m in UK back taxes has been labelled as "derisory" and a "sweetheart deal" by critics, BBC News reports The payment covers money owed since