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Rocket company offers $95,000 trips to space
22:49 02 December 2008 | 1 comment
XCOR Aerospace says it will sell tickets on its suborbital spaceship for less than half the price of Virgin Galactic
Computer-generated hairstyles get real
18:00 02 December 2008
New techniques are making it easier for animators to create realistic hair, and helped create the river in Bjork's latest music video
Swapping your body becomes a virtual reality
16:09 02 December 2008 | 9 comments
Camera trickery convinces volunteers that they have swapped bodies with someone else or a mannequin
Ten ways to save the world
14:42 02 December 2008 | 40 comments
A new book describes the technologies we need to adopt if we are to win the war against climate change
How to visualise the immense
14:35 02 December 2008 | 2 comments
See how computer visualisation informs everything from human bone analysis to simulations of warp bubbles in space
New tools predict web page popularity
FEATURE: 14:00 02 December 2008 | 1 comment
The popularity of website items several weeks after publication can be predicted from the share of traffic they generate when first published
Invention: Supersonic hurricane neutraliser
16:04 01 December 2008 | 22 comments
Flying jets in circles at supersonic speed inside a hurricane could dissipate its destructive force, a patent application claims
Molecular fireworks could produce '30-minute genomes'
FEATURE: 13:40 01 December 2008 | 7 comments
A Californian startup has unveiled a technique that could sequence single person's genome for under $1000
ENERGY
Cyborg leaf makes working solar power plant
Gold leaf can now harvest power from the Sun
SECURITY
Laser trick churns out secure random numbers
Making lasers feedback could keep our secrets safe
FROM THE BLOG
Should the US taxpayer support green cars for rich people?
15:25 01 December 2008
Should a company that makes electric cars receive state support, even when it's vehicles are only for the rich?
Guitar Hero controller hacked to help amputees
17:23 28 November 2008
The latest generation of prosthetics being developed in the US are incredibly advanced. But the latest piece of research kit is a cheap piece of videogame hardware: the controller to axe-man simulator Guitar Hero
Software 'can identify' Rumsfeld's unknown unknowns
11:48 26 November 2008
The Bush administration will soon be history. But we may be left with a computerised version of former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remember them by. US defence giant and stealth-bomber manufacturer Northrop Grumman is patenting a system (see the...
VIDEO
Electron strobe makes atomic movies
A microscope with a strobing electron source captures atoms in motion with new clarity
VIDEO
Oil and water mix on demand
A remote-control chemical lets scientists decide when they want oil and water to mingle
