Boffins from leading UK academic institutions claim to have reached a new milestone in the pursuit of 'Li-Fi' - Internet connectivity powered by LED light bulbs.

It is natural, if morbid, to try to romanticise death. It’s something we’re all aware will happen, so we soften the blow: we make death into “eternal sleep”. It’s more than a little jarring to this comforting appreciation of the end that there are number of people who limit themselves to a Spartan 140-character limit when they compose their final testament: a Twitter suicide note.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is continuing his long, proud tradition of bashing his former company. Macworld reports that Wozniak told the Apps World conference in the United Kingdom on Wednesday...

Most of us have probably met (and envied) at least one of those mysterious people who never seem to be tired. We've sized them up through bleary eyes, and wondered how it is that they don't look like they spent 30 minutes battling with the snooze button this morning. The answer isn't necessarily that they have the luxury of more hours to sleep; instead, many of the most well-rested have some simple habits that help them achieve plenty of high-quality rest.

Earlier this month, Ukrainian astronomers made a pretty big discovery: a quarter-mile-wide asteroid, to be exact. From their initial calculations, the astronomers learned that a relatively large, never-seen-before asteroid—named 2013 TV135—had just buzzed safely past Earth but would make an extremely close call on August 26, 2032.

In Iowa and Florida, they have a new method of chasing suspects. The police car's grill opens up and out is projected a better method of keeping up with the vehicle they're chasing.

“I’m just not a math person.” We hear it all the time. And we’ve had enough. Because we believe that the idea of “math people” is the most self-destructive idea in America today. The truth is, you probably are a math person, and by thinking otherwise, you are possibly hamstringing your own career. Worse, you may be helping to perpetuate a pernicious myth that is harming underprivileged children—the myth of inborn genetic math ability.

Large breakthrough international study pooling data from over 74,000 people identifies 11 previously unknown susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease, bringing the total to 21.

In these smartphone-studded days, it's easy to forget how computers worked. Once you had to run programs off of floppy disks and wait ages for everything to load. Luckily for your nostalgia, some bored developers are keeping the past alive with full-featured emulators that run in your browser.

If my mother had seen these, she might not have said, "Don't play with your food."

After surgery, military personnel whose legs have been crushed or blasted can end up with a limb that looks healthy but is debilitated by pain and weakness. Some patients even ask for amputations. The Army solution is a sort of scaffold for intact but malfunctioning legs called the Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis, and now, thanks to a company called Hangar, it’s going to be available to civilians too.

I am what you might call a recovering junk food addict. One that had an especially strong penchant for candy. And while I've managed to get my sweet tooth under control in recent years, I still have quite a weakness for homemade versions of classic treats.

Brain-mimicking software can reliably solve a test meant to separate humans from machines.

Restorers working on renovations for the Sforza Castle in Italy got quite a shock this week when they peeled away several coats of paint to reveal part of a Leonardo Da Vinci mural. Buried beneath 17 layers of whitewash, the portion of the drawing -- which depicts a tree root stuck in a rock -- has likely been hidden from view for at least 500 years.

Electronic devices that biodegrade to order could lead to huge medical advances. And the Pentagon is investing in 'born-to-die' technology too, writes Mark Piesing.

How does it effect our education system?

A reverse microwave has been created which can chill any drink in a matter of seconds

Researchers have discovered a new radar technique that could be used to find an improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in a pile of trash on the road, and the finding was inspired from an unlikely source: dolphins. The technology could also be used to find buried earthquake victims, animals marked with tags, or tiny surveillance devices hidden in walls.

Only a few months after closing a Series B round of $60 million that valued the ephemeral messaging company at $800 million, Snapchat has been in talks for another funding that values it at up to $3.6 billion, according to sources close to the situation.

The Boomerang Nebula, positioned approximately 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, is a somewhat youthful example of a space object called a planetary nebula.

Parents who worry their kids are accessing porn on the Internet may have a new concern on their hands: whether their little hackers have joined Anonymous. That’s what one father had to contend with Thursday when he accompanied his fifth grader to court

Halloween is round the corner and everyone is preparing to get into the groove and move, not even the animals are spared. Check out these pets, which are fully prepared to scare the shit out of the other on the coming Halloween. Their zeal is incredible and have no plans to...

NASA has set a new record for data transmission to and from the moon with a 622Mbps transfer carried over laser beams. The space agency used pulsed lasers to transmit data between a ground station in New Mexico and a spacecraft 239,000 miles away during its recent Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration.

At long last, engineers at Florida International University have found a way of breaking the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drive storage. By moving to three dimensions, the researchers have massively increased areal density, with the possibility of 100-terabyte hard drives now firmly on the horizon.

We’re in the middle of an epic battle for power in cyberspace. On one side are the traditional, organized, institutional powers such as governments and large multinational corporations. On the other are the distributed and nimble: grassroots movements, dissident groups, hackers and criminals.

Giant George, named the world’s tallest dog — and the Tallest Dog Ever — by the Guinness Book of World Records, died just one month shy of his 8th birthday. The 245-pound blue Great Dane stretched 43 inches from paw to shoulder and stood a towering 7 feet, 3 inches when on his hind legs.

Phonebloks has been designed as a sustainable smartphone that can be built with parts like Lego blocks.

An entire underground prescription drug delivery system exists on social media—and one if its most prominent dealers threatened me by Emoji.

3-month-old Duncan is a boxer puppy unlike you've ever seen before. 1 day after having a double amputation, the puppy was back up and running around on two legs like a BOSS.

Astronomers may have identified one of the richest planetary systems yet