Posted January 29, 2010 - 08:38 by Emma Woollacott
India is planning its first manned spaceflight as early as 2016.
Posted January 29, 2010 - 07:08 by Emma Woollacott
The right hand is the sinister one as far as left-handers are concerned, according to researchers.
Posted January 29, 2010 - 05:43 by Emma Woollacott
The first laser fusion experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) have successfully overcome a hurdle that many thought would scupper the project.
Posted January 28, 2010 - 20:34 by Andrew Isaak
A number of expert witnesses recently informed a US Senate committee hearing that cell phones have a detrimental effect on human health.
Posted January 28, 2010 - 16:09 by Aharon Etengoff
Nissan has accepted a $1.4 billion loan from the US Department of Energy (DoE) to modify its Tennessee plant for the production of electric vehicles.
Posted January 28, 2010 - 08:26 by Emma Woollacott
It's the stuff of many a nasty fairy tale, but researchers have found that old mice can be rejuvenated by giving them certain blood factors from young mice.
Posted January 28, 2010 - 06:47 by Emma Woollacott
A Swiss team has applied Darwinian selection to robot development, producing robots that can walk, cooperate and even hunt each other.
Posted January 28, 2010 - 05:24 by Emma Woollacott
We at TG Daily always had a sneaking suspicion that the makers of Barney had got it a bit wrong. And now it turns out that dinosaurs weren't purple at all - but ginger!
Posted January 28, 2010 - 04:49 by Emma Woollacott
MIT is using automated machine learning to help develop a 'wiring diagram' of the human brain.
Posted January 27, 2010 - 06:26 by Emma Woollacott
Your mother was wrong, and now you can prove it. All that loud music probably hasn't done your hearing any harm at all.
Posted January 27, 2010 - 05:49 by Emma Woollacott
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: a new study suggests that both laughing and crying are universal across cultures.
Posted January 27, 2010 - 05:18 by Emma Woollacott
The dream is over: Barak Obama's NASA budget proposal, due Monday, looks unlikely to make any provision for returning men to the moon.
Posted January 26, 2010 - 09:26 by Emma Woollacott
Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on their fears to the girls that they teach.
Posted January 26, 2010 - 08:26 by Emma Woollacott
Men are insensitive bastards, according to a new study, which finds they feel much less guilt than women.
Posted January 26, 2010 - 07:12 by Emma Woollacott
A Chinese-American team says it's settled the long-standing question of how bird flight began.
Posted January 26, 2010 - 05:27 by Emma Woollacott
Bill Gates says a malaria vaccine could be as little as three years away, with a prototype entering final trials.
Posted January 26, 2010 - 04:33 by Emma Woollacott
Entropy: it's a bugger, innit? One day, the universe and everything in it will run down and die, making all human endeavour utterly worthless.
Posted January 25, 2010 - 07:19 by Emma Woollacott
Humans could run at 40 miles per hour, according to scientists, who reckon they have established the theoretical limits of running speed.
Posted January 25, 2010 - 06:45 by Emma Woollacott
He says he's hoping to gain useful information about the stratosphere for future astronauts, but we suspect it's all just showing off.
Posted January 25, 2010 - 06:16 by Emma Woollacott
Boys who watch porn are more likely to think sexual harassment is acceptable and less likely to form successful relationships when they get older.
