Duncan Geere

Neuroscientists are linking groups of neurons in fruit fly brains to specific behaviours using machine learning.

A team of engineers and neuroscientists are using the way insects visualise and hunt prey to improve autonomous robotic technology.

Scottish astrobiologists have determined that the surface of Mars is covered with salt minerals that kill bacteria.

Engineers at the University of Washington have designed a mobile phone that harvests power from its surroundings.

Creating a fridge-sized spacecraft capable of shunting asteroids off dangerous trajectories.

A team of Austrian computer scientists has designed flat sheets that can transform themselves into 3D objects.

A team of Moroccan engineers has developed a robotic device for extracting valuable venom from scorpions without danger.

McGill University biologists have analysed the lifespans of the longest-living individuals in the world.

The "painless" flu shot delivers a vaccine into the skin with microneedles and has passed its first clinical trials.

MIT engineers have developed flying drones that can land on a surface and then drive away

Take THAT, sensationalist pressure groups!

Optical engineers have developed a new type of display that they say could solve virtual reality's biggest source of discomfort.

Metrologists around the world are preparing themselves for the redefinition of the kilogram, which is due next year.

Researchers at The University of California Santa Barbara have developed a method of 3D imaging through walls using drones.

As well as phones, robots or medical implants.

Engineers at Berkeley Lab have discovered that a derivative of seaweed could act as a stabiliser in lithium-sulphur batteries.

Founder of virtual community 'Asgardia' says a Cubesat storing data will be launched in August 2017.

The Soletair pilot plant in Finland can also make hydrocarbon-base chemicals

Crumb-free loaves could be made in microgravity for people orbiting the Earth

Bestowing robots with self-doubt may help us avoid an AI apocalypse.

Google has released a map of air pollution levels in Oakland, California, after a year of gathering data.

New York State University engineers have developed a defence against audio attacks

Australian researchers built a deep learning engine that analysed images of internal organs to predict which patients would die within five years.

Palaeontologists at the University of Manchester say that the latest research indicates that a Jurassic Park scenario is impossible.

Japanese roboticists have developed a set of 'metalimbs' that give you an extra couple of hands to do things with.