Real-life Jedi: Pushing the limits of mind control
You don't have to be a Jedi to make things move with your mind.Granted, we may not be able to lift a spaceship out...
Mobile phone: Weapon against global poverty
When renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs visited rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa in 2005, he saw impoverished communities with poor drinking water, feast-and-famine crop cycles...
Sun’s ultraviolet variability link to changing climate
United Kingdom - Recent cold winters that brought chaos to the UK and other places in northern Europe may have their roots in the...
Faith, hope and transformation in the scientific age
The first of March 1932 seemed like any other working day for the miners of La Paz in Mexico. They donned their helmets, picked...
UK 'must act to solve games industry brain drain'
Britain must do more to nurture a more competitive games industry if it is to prevent key talent moving overseas.That is one of the...
India launches the world's cheapest touch-screen tablet computer
New Delhi India - India has launched what it says is the world's cheapest touch-screen tablet computer, priced at just $35 (£23).Costing a fraction...
NASA Leads Study of Unprecedented Arctic Ozone Loss
A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually...
IBM beats Microsoft in tech giants ranking
For the first time since 1996 IBM's market value has exceeded Microsoft's.IBM's closing price on 29 September was $214bn (£137.4bn) while Microsoft's was a...
China is ready for next space leap
China is due to launch its first space laboratory, Tiangong-1.The 10.5m-long, cylindrical module will be unmanned for the time being, but the country's astronauts,...
NASA's UARS satellite fell far from major landmass
Nasa's UARS spacecraft fell to Earth to the north-east of the Vanuatu archipelago.Orbital tracking experts have now established that the defunct satellite entered the...