Duncan Geere

A Latvian company called Aerones is building drones that can drag snowboarders behind them across frozen lakes.

Researchers studying the dynamics of a hypothetical zombie outbreak have determined that it'd only take about 100 days to wipe out humanity.

Engineers have found that the technology to create such a system already exists - it just needs to be designed

Engineers have developed a new kind of smartphone camera that mimics the way insects see.

Norwegian engineers are building snake-shaped robots that they hope could carry out maintenance on the ISS, study comets, and explore the Moon

Materials scientists are studying the remarkable toughness of deer antlers in a bid to create stronger, more resilient substances

A team of Harvard engineers has built the world's smallest radio receiver out of atom-scale defects in pink diamond.

Engineers at Ford are studying a system that would see autonomous drones guiding self-driving cars when they need to go off-road.

Berkeley roboticists have developed a tiny robot, inspired by nature, that's capable of wall jumps

Researchers at UCLA have designed a computer that can read posts on parenting websites in an attempt to figure out how false narratives spread online

Virgin Galactic is celebrating the completion of the first unpowered solo voyage of its new spacecraft

Apparently, sticking a 3D-printed dog nose on the end of an explosives detector makes it substantially better

Engineers at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have figured out how to 3D-print a drone with the electronics it needs to fly already inside.

Gears made out of metallic glass will allow robotic limbs to turn smoothly on other worlds.

The human brain takes less than a second to tell the difference between reality and fantasy, according to psychologists.

Diamonds and nuclear waste combine to make batteries.

MIT researchers have come up with a simple, low-cost ingredient for building muscle fibres for robots - nylon.

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked smartphone manufacturers to try to figure out a way to stop distractions.

Psychologists from the University of Central Florida have tested response times for people using Google Glass and similar headsets, and the results are concerning.

Earth scientists have identified a huge new potential source of food and fuel for the world - microalgae.

A design researcher has developed a bot that crawls the internet looking for pictures of people. If it doesn't find a smile, it adds one.

Longform Building the 'ultimate empathy machine', and the VR experiences to go with it.

In almost every scientific study ever done, women are better at identifying faces. But when it comes to the faces of Transformers, men do better.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has requested US government approval to launch a vast satellite network that would provide high-speed global internet coverage.