By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer.

The hunt may well be over for a mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of the mass of the universe

The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you’ve had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.

Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon.

SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish.

ABSTRACT: We investigate whether it is physically possible to build starships
or power plants using the Hawking radiation of an artificial black hole as a power
source. The proposal seems to be at the edge of possibility, but quantum gravity
effects could change the picture.

Most people think computer scientists are nerdy guys. Lisa Grossman asks if that image keeps women out of the field.

Those who think they’re unlucky should change their outlook and discover how to generate good fortune, says Richard Wiseman