It’s not your imagination: keeping up with the sheer amount of content that’s available today — whether it’s Twitter, the news, or the latest show on Netflix...

Springer Nature, the world’s second biggest academic publisher, has published the first scholarly book authored entirely by machines. The book, which is free...

Children between the ages of 5 and 16 typically spend more than six hours a day in front of a screen. That rises to around eight hours for teenage boys, acco...

An app that monitors birth control using temperature-based methods has come under scrutiny after a commentary appeared in a journal citing concerns about the...

Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational research. The full articl...

Blockchain, the technology behind the popular digital currency bitcoin, has the potential to transform research and the science publishing landscape. That’s ...

A web application inspired by the dating app Tinder lets you make snap judgments about preprints—papers published online before peer review—simply by swiping...

When designer and cycling enthusiast Florian Born moved to Berlin, one thing that bugged him was the number of bumps and potholes on the city's roads. So he ...

A staggering 1.3 billion people worldwide still don’t have access to electricity, and 95 percent of these people are based in either Sub-Saharan Africa or As...

Worldwide, there has been a push to digitalise medical records to make patients active participants in their treatments. A new app, SikL, has been designed t...

My interview with Kit Huckvale, a PhD student at Imperial's Global eHealth department, appeared on this month's Imperial podcast. Kit and colleagues have cre...

Diabetes patients often have to inject themselves with needles several times a day to check their blood glucose levels. But, a new temporary tattoo, which ha...

One in six people don't have access to toilets in developing countries. There is a culture of people practicing open defecation in many villages and even som...

Bricks made from soft plastic waste that can each withstand six tonnes of pressure and relentless rain could replace the clay and straw that is currently use...

Young video bloggers (vloggers) such as Zoe Sugg, known as Zoella, photographed above have millions of subscribers on YouTube and are now making inroads to o...

An ant-sized batteryless radio that only costs a few pennies to make. Read the full post on the news website of Science magazine.

I wrote three short stories for the 'Lab Notes' section of the 'Discover' part of the 'The New Review' section of The Observer newspaper that was published t...

A free app to help blind people use different functions on smartphoneshas been launched this week, allowing tapping gestures to be translated into text. The w...