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Some of the most beautiful national parks in the US are threatened by a mining boom prompted by soaring metal prices, according to an analysis of government data.
A point-and-click computer program that can automatically hack into vulnerable wireless networks - or probe them for weak spots - has been released by US researchers. Experts say it highlights the importance of ensuring that wireless networks are configured securely.
Each stretch of an artificial muscle attached to a buoy can generate 20 watts of power (Image: SRI)
Young children become chatterboxes within months of barely being able to speak a few words. Now one scientist thinks he knows why.
Cynics often dismiss in-car satellite navigation (satnav) systems as an expensive luxury bought by people with no sense of direction.
Rainfall was dramatically reduced in 1992, as a result of the 1991 Pinatubo eruption, even if the effects of El Niño were eliminated from the record (bottom graph); arrows indicate the eruptions of Mount Agung, El Chichón, and Pinatubo (Image: GRL/Trenberth/Dai)
Siberia is experiencing earlier springs, a study of satellite images has revealed. The trend is likely to be triggering more forest fires, say researchers, and to be linked to global warming.
One of the great challenges for neuroscientists is to understand the code the brain uses to send information along neurons. Researchers at Brown University on Rhode Island have now come up with a device that may help to tackle the mystery.
Some of the material on video sites like YouTube is "re-purposed", which is a polite way of saying it was uploaded without the copyright holder's permission.
The image on the left shows the glass ball’s “plop” as it enters the water. The ball on the right is coated with a hydrophobic layer that causes it to repel water, creating a bigger splash (Image: Lydéric Bocquet)
Worried about your kids watching the wrong stuff on TV? Don't trust the official suitability ratings either? An inventor in Salt Lake City, Utah, thinks he has the answer.
Portable gizmos such as phones, handheld computers and mp3 players can easily get scuffed, dirty and sticky.
RotoTexture – provides a less complicated way to artificially modify a surface (Image: Hui Fang)
If you are a parent seeking advice on how to help your autistic child, a web search might bring you to a set of instructive videos by Phil Commander. The tutorials cover a wide range of behavioural interventions, using noisemakers and poker chips, which are meant to boost autistic youngsters’ ability to respond to other people.
Stun guns could soon be able to deliver a disabling shock even to recipients wearing insulating clothing.
A device that uses light to send hair follicles to sleep, making skin smooth for weeks at a time, without shaving or waxing, is being patented by Philips.
Seabirds like these penguins at Cape Washington, Antarctica, flap their wings faster underwater than swimming birds that can also fly, like guillemots (Image: Katsufumi Sato)
Fish of two different species have been filmed helping each other to hunt. It is the first known instance of two unrelated species hunting cooperatively, except for humans.
There are between 92 million and 180 million great tits in cities and natural habitats across Europe, according to BirdLife International (Image: Current Biology/Slabberkoorn)
Sony's Tokyo research lab has found a way to connect headphones to portable music and video players without the need for fiddly wiring. They simply feed an audio signal straight through the listener's body.
Vestimentiferan worms - a type of tube worm widely seen at the methane seeps - were sampled from the "Builder's Pencil" site. Builder’s Pencil, which covers 180,000 square metres, is one of the largest seep sites in the world (Image: NOAA/NIWA)
In future, robots could explore dangerous places by mimicking the distant movements of an operator (Image: Angelika Peer)
A relatively low tech way to protect military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan against rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) is being patented by a US electronics company.
Tooth decay often goes undetected until too late. Early signs of damage are usually hidden from sight and it is unhealthy to take too many X-rays.
New high-speed footage of the humble rubber band has treated physicists to a rare insight into the properties of elasticity, and discovered the truth about exactly why an elastic band recoils.
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