LONDON (TIP): If you’ve ever had sleepless nights wondering how much of your life has been idled away on Facebook, a tool has at last been developed that means you can stop wasting your time. […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Astronomers have discovered a never-beforeseen river of hydrogen flowing through space into a nearby galaxy around 22 million light years from Earth. This very faint, very tenuous filament of gas is streaming into […]

LONDON (TIP): Spanish scientists have discovered why beer transforms from liquid to foam when one bottle is bumped against another. Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ( UC3M) and colleagues got the idea for […]

LONDON (TIP): A new app for Google‘s hi-tech wearable computing gadget, Glass, would reportedly change the way people have sex, or more appropriately “view it”. The ‘Sex with Glass’ app has been designed to enhance […]

LONDON (TIP): Internet security firm SplashData has released its list of the worst passwords of 2013. King of terrible passwords, ‘password’, has finally been unseated from its throne. It has been displaced by ‘123456’ as […]

LONDON (TIP): Scientists in the UK have created the fastest ever real-world internet connection, using commercial-grade fibre optic lines to clock up speeds of 1.4 terabits per second. It’s believed to be the fastest speed […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have developed a new biodegradable battery that runs on sugar and can work for long hours without charging. In as soon as three years, the new battery could be running some of […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers have developed a new spacesuit for astronauts which presses down on its wearer to keep their bones in good health. Researchers at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Germany have designed the […]

PARIS (TIP): A scientist published a guide to help authorities limit deaths from fallout after a city is hit by a nuclear bomb. Taking cover in existing buildings is widely accepted as a critical first […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have found that the first placental mammal lived between 88.3 to 91.6 million years ago, suggesting that the ancestor of humans shared the planet with dinosaurs. The study challenges previous research, which […]

LONDON (TIP): Scientists have found that materials which make an invisibility cloak a real-life possibility can perform advanced mathematical calculations, paving way for development of a new kind of analogue computer. An international team of […]

LONDON (TIP): Astronomers using measurements from a telescope in Hawaii have found that the dark side of the Moon is actually turquoise in colour. Astronomers at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii discovered that blue […]

LONDON (TIP): Researchers in Germany have created a prototype of human-like bone marrow that could be used to produce blood-producing stem cells to facilitate leukaemia therapy. The breakthrough , by scientists at the Max Planck […]

LONDON (TIP): Scientists have developed a device that can take a “biopsy” of a living cell, sampling minute volumes of its contents without killing it. The new tool, called a nanobiopsy, uses a robotic glass […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa and the Japanese space agency JAXA are teaming up to launch a new weather satellite in February 2014, to improve environmental research and weather forecasts worldwide. On February 28, Nasa and Japan […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have identified an existing antiinflammatory drug that in laboratory tests blocked the death of immune system’s cells which occurs as an HIV infection leads to AIDS. Researchers are planning a Phase 2 […]

LONDON (TIP): In a major breakthrough, an inkjet printer in Britain can print eye cells which can be used to cure human blindness. For the first time ever, researchers from UK have used inkjet printing […]

BERLIN (TIP): Scientists, including one of Indianorigin , have devised a new technique to boil water in less than a trillionth of a second. The theoretical concept, which has not yet been demonstrated in practice […]

LONDON (TIP): British scientists have developed the world’s first smart bra that can detect changes in mood with the hope of preventing emotionally-triggered over-eating in women. The bra has been jointly created by the University […]

OSLO (TIP): A type of rock that often bears diamonds has been found in Antarctica for the first time in a hint of mineral riches in the vast, icy continent that is off limits to […]

Scientists stored information in a quantum computing system for 39 minutes, a massive increase from the previous record of 25 seconds Scientists have achieved an “exciting breakthrough” in quantum computing, creating a solid-state memory system […]

Back in May, Google announced the launch of their Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab: a collaboration with NASA to “study how quantum computing might advance machine learning.” Now, after months of secrecy the search giant has […]

LONDON (TIP): A computer in the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Pune) has been declared the 44th fastest machine in the world, capable of 719 trillion calculations per second. In all, 12 Indian computers have […]

LONDON (TIP): Researchers from the US space agency NASA have said that granite – an igneous rock common on Earth— could be found in abundance on Mars. For years Mars was considered geologically simplistic consisting […]