Expandable habitats may take us to Mars
In sci-fi movies, space habitats are huge structures with labyrinth layouts.
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The ‘Underground Astronauts’ in search of new human species
Hidden deep within the black innards of a South African cave lay human evolution's equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb.
The secretive, billionaire-backed plans to harness fusion
Inside a laboratory near Vancouver in British Columbia, an alarm is blaring. In the middle of the industrial warehouse stands what looks like a cannon from a spaceship, about five metres long and festooned in wires.
Weasel knocks out CERN’s powerful particle accelerator
The largest scientific experiment has gone offline because of a foreign intruder.
Glitchy Facebook bots show tech in early stages
One of the chatbots Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg featured in his widely watched keynote is glitchy.
The new Kindle Oasis is Amazon’s radical e-reader redesign
The wedge-shaped Kindle Oasis is a petite and pocketable new e-reader from Amazon that sacrifices a bit of battery life to fit in the palm of your hand.
Friends University’s library begin running on solar power
By next week, students at the Friends University library will be reading by sunlight, even when they’re far from any windows.
The planet hunter searching for another Earth
"I want to find another Earth. That's what I'm living for."
Pitch perfect: mobile makers, telcos drawn to hi-res audio
Mostly young, male audiophiles throng a Singapore hotel ballroom, intently assessing headphones, earbuds and in-ear monitors - priced from $50 to as much as $10,000.
Kepler spacecraft in trouble 75 million miles from Earth
NASA's Kepler spacecraft is in trouble -- far, far away.
