A captive orca named Wikie has become the first killer whale known to recognisably make sounds that are not part of her native repertoire – including human language words like “hello” and “bye bye”. An international team of researchers has…
The surveillance law requires phone and web providers to keep a record of users browsing histories for 12 months and also provide security services such as the police and official agencies access to the data. The EU highest court stated…
Nanomachines may be tiny – 50,000 of them would fit across the diameter of a human hair – but they have the potential to pack a mighty punch in the fight against cancer. Researchers at Durham University in the UK…
Dementia and Alzheimer’s are now the leading cause of death in the UK. It has been estimated that worldwide costs for Alzheimer’s may soon reach one trillion dollars. A cure would immediately impact the budget of every state in the…
Professor Panos Athanasopoulos and Professor Emanuel Bylund have discovered that people who speak two languages fluently think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events. Read more in weforum Bilinguals experience…
A small and preliminary clinical trial has found that injecting a common cold-like virus into the eyes of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients – one of the leading causes of blindness in the US – can halt and even reverse…
Graphene is absolutely amazing stuff, the lightest, strongest stuff we know of. It’s ultra-light, yet immensely tough , It’s 200 times stronger than steel, but it is incredibly flexible and It’s the thinnest material possible as well as being transparent. The idea…
Most li-fi systems rely on transmitting data via LED bulbs, which means there are some limitations to how easily the technology could be applied to systems outside the lab. But researchers have come up with a new type of li-fi…
Tiny tardigrades – also known as water bears – have many strange properties, including being able to withstand huge amounts of radiation, temperatures ranging from 150°C (302°F) to near absolute zero, and pressures six times greater than in the deepest…
Autism isn’t a single condition, but rather describes a spectrum of behaviours and characteristics related to how a person senses and interacts with their environment. Scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, Massachusetts, turned their focus to…
