There’s a very commonly held view that atoms can never touch: bring them together slowly, and you reach a point where they begin to repel. But in this video, Professor Philip Moriarty explains that really isn’t the case. Read more…
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Can Atoms Ever Touch?
A team of security researchers has discovered a security flaw in Google’s mobile OS which affects handsets running versions up to and including 4.4—leaving a potential 82 percent of Android users at risk. Read more…
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A ‘Fake ID’ Flaw in Android Leaves Millions of Phones Vulnerable
According to Reuters , Iraq rebels have stolen 88 pounds of uranium compounds that were being used for scientific research at a university in the city of Mosul. Read more…
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Iraq Rebels Have Seized 88 Pounds of Uranium
Health and fitness monitoring is helping us all look after ourselves a little better, but there’s one stumbling block: calorie intake is still self-reported, making it laborious and often inaccurate. GE, however, thinks it has a way to change that. Read more…
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GE’s Made a Microwave That Can Measure the Calories on Your Plate
Just like consumer tech, criminal tech advances in leaps and bounds—and none more so than the ATM skimmer. Now, the kinds of skimmers being used are so slim and small that you’ll never see them—and their battery life means they last an age, too. Read more…
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The Latest Super-Thin ATM Skimmers Are Virtually Unspottable
Remember how the 984-foot-long cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground in Italy in 2012? Now, police divers have re-entered the vessel, days before an attempt to re-float it, and this video shows exactly what it looks like two years on. Read more…
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This Is What the Sunken Cruise Ship Costa Concordia Looks Like Now
Well, this is embarrassing. Remember how a Harvard team found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang ? Well, now it’s published its findings—and it’s backtracking on its original claims. Read more…
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Big Bang Discovery Researchers Backtrack on Original Claims
In the early hours of June 4th, the New York Police Department raided the General Ulysses S. Grant and Manhattanville housing projects in West Harlem. Its biggest gang raid ever, it saw 40 suspects arrested—and it was masterminded by mining over 1 million Facebook posts. Read more…
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The NYPD’s Biggest Gang Raid Was Informed By 1 Million Facebook Posts
A rat’s nest of cables at the back of a desk is truly the sign of the gadget-obsessed. But Intel plans to end all that, and soon: it wants your desk—hell, your entire digital life—to be completely wireless by 2016. Read more…
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Intel Wants to Make Your Office Entirely Cable-Free By 2016
Intel has just announced a new reference PC design that uses its upcoming Broadwell chipset. Usually, that wouldn’t get us excited—but this concept ushers in the prospect of silent ultrabooks and MacBook Airs. Read more…
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Intel’s New Broadwell Processor Could Make Your Next Ultrabook Silent