Technology

Do you remember that quite popular film a few years back that gave us a dystopian view of a desolate world? A world where humanity is at the brink of self-destruction, where vital resources are finite, and the landscape is borderline…

You wake up, woefully hungover, and remember the hot guy or girl you chatted up in the queue for the bar but couldn’t find the rest of the night. Or maybe your eyes met in the middle of the best gig of your life but you never found out who…

Great Scott! Today’s the day Michael J. Fox has been paranoid about for years. It’s the day Marty McFly arrives into 2015. So apart from the fact that we’re all going to start dressing like this today: What did Back to the Future get…

What would you do if someone hacked into software connected to your brain? This may sound like the premise of a thousand and one questionable dystopian films but it happened to Neil Harbisson. Of all the people who might find themselves on…

We live in an age of algorithms. They fly our planes for us, explore the distant rocks of Mars for us, find us our soulmates (or at least a cheeky Tinder rendezvous), and even help us find something good to stick on the telly of a dreary…

Extinction is bad news for parasites, too Species extinction doesn’t just mean loss of biodiversity of host species; it spells out bad news for parasites, too. In fact, in certain parasite-host network structures, the loss of the host…

There are lovers' secrets, family secrets, State secrets, secret codes, handshakes and diaries. Have you a secret and can you keep one? Secrets ignite our thirst for knowledge and everybody has at least one. Even as I write this I have…

Diving down the rabbit hole of YouTube may lose you hours but that doesn’t mean time wasted. Throwing some science trivia into a conversation can impress potential lovers and make you appear far more knowledgeable than you actually are.…

This week Terminator Genisys, Schwarzeneggered back into the cinema to remind us that robots spell the doom of us all. But how close are we really to needing our John Connor? Sometimes research into robotics and artificial intelligence…

It was a hot and stormy summer’s night 160 years ago when Nikola Tesla drew his first breath. If the world had known what wonders he would bring, it might have paid more attention. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest scientific minds of…