• 3 babies saved by 3D windpipe

    Three babies are saved from a life-threatening condition by using 3D printed windpipe splints to help them breathe, a pilot study reveals.

  • Salt water turned into drinking water using solar power

    By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it, but it’s just won the 2015 Desal Prize - a competition run by USAID to encourage better solutions to water shortages in developing countries, reports sciencealert.com.

  • Sentinel satellite reveals Nepal quake movement

    Europe's Sentinel-1a satellite has got its first good look at the aftermath of Saturday's big quake in Nepal.

  • American Airlines planes grounded by iPad app error

    A faulty app caused American Airlines to ground dozens of its jets.

  • Samsung S5 fingerprint flaw exposed

    Hackers can take copies of fingerprints used to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S5 phone, claim security researchers.

  • Japan train sets new speed records

    A Japanese magnetic levitation train has broken its own world speed record, hitting 603km/h (374mph) in a test run near Mount Fuji.

  • '3D Cryosat' tracks Arctic winter sea ice

    Although Arctic sea ice set a record this year for its lowest ever winter extent - that was not the case for its volume, new data reveals.

  • New Horizons spacecraft nears historic encounter

    NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons.

  • Coloured Pluto comes into view

    The New Horizons probe, which is bearing down on Pluto, captures its first colour image of the distant dwarf planet.

  • 7 theories on the origin of life

    Life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over time, but how did the first organisms on the only known home to life in the universe develop from the primordial soup?