Technology - general
Lego-like wall produces acoustic holograms
17 Oct 2016
Worked to death? Lack of control over high-stress jobs leads to early grave
17 Oct 2016
Research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business finds that those in high-stress jobs with little control over their workflow die younger or are less healthy than those who have more flexibility and discretion in their jobs and are able to set their own goals as part of their employment
Worked to death? Lack of control over high-stress jobs leads to early grave
17 Oct 2016
Research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business finds that those in high-stress jobs with little control over their workflow die younger or are less healthy than those who have more flexibility and discretion in their jobs and are able to set their own goals as part of their employment
China developing world's smallest nuclear power plant: report
12 Oct 2016
China is developing the world’s smallest nuclear reactor, which is smaller than a shipping container but can provide enough energy to power 50,000 households
Snow could reduce need for air conditioning
12 Oct 2016
Study challenges idea of mandatory water intake
07 Oct 2016
Three share 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
05 Oct 2016
This year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa - have developed the world's smallest machines – molecular machines with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added
A cooperative way to make ammonia
05 Oct 2016
Determining how bacterial nitrogenase works could someday lead to better industrial production of fertilizer
Three British scientists share Physics Nobel
04 Oct 2016
Discoveries by David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz helped illuminate how in some realms matter can exist in strange states, and in doing so helped scientists work with new forms of materials
FAST: China officially opens world’s largest radio telescope
27 Sep 2016
The $180-million telescope, which dwarfs others of its kind, will be used for observation of pulsars as well as exploration of interstellar molecules and “interstellar communication signals” - which could be sent by extra-terrestrial intelligence
Scientists identify gene behind our sixth sense
24 Sep 2016
Horses can tell you when they want a blanket – and when not
23 Sep 2016
The results strongly indicate that the horses had learnt to communicate their preferences using symbols, the researchers said
Single African migration accounts for all of world’s races
23 Sep 2016
Three separate studies have established for the first time that all non-Africans today trace their ancestry to a single population emerging from Africa between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago