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Video ad to appear in magazine this autumn
News Broadcast network CBS plans to advertise its autumn TV season with a video-chip ad in the September issue of US magazine Entertainment Weekly [20 Aug 2009]
Cern plans gentle restart for LHC in November
News The European Organisation for Nuclear Research plans lower energy level restart in November [10 Aug 2009]
Natal's gesture recognition gets a workout
News Microsoft is counting on the new technology to give an important boost to the Xbox 360 [07 Aug 2009]
Lab on a chip promises to speed experiments
News Researchers have developed a chip that can be used to perform over 1,000 experiments simultaneously [06 Aug 2009]
Culprit found for latest LHC leaks
News The liquid helium leaks that have pushed back the restart of the Large Hadron Collider are thought to have been caused by a fault in flexible hosing [03 Aug 2009]
Microsoft turns room into a PC
News Project Natal's gesture-recognition technology could be used to extend the desktop PC to a whole room, with gestures as input and walls as a display, according to Craig Mundie [03 Aug 2009]
Images: Fly to the moon with Google Earth 
Photos On the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, Google launched Moon in Google Earth, providing 3D images and information to would-be space tourists [23 Jul 2009]
Nasa's fresh hopes for moon mission
Analysis The space agency thinks ice on the moon could be the key to an outpost that smoothes the path to Mars. But funding could be a bigger barrier than physics [22 Jul 2009]
Vacuum leaks lead to more Hadron Collider delays
News The restart date for an experiment using the world's largest atom-smasher has been pushed back yet again, after more problems were found [21 Jul 2009]
Images: The Apollo 11 moon landing
Photos The first ever visit by humankind to another celestial body, Nasa's Apollo 11 mission, marks its 40th anniversary today [20 Jul 2009]
Nasa takes steps to restore Apollo 11 footage
News A Hollywood post-production house is working to re-create images of astronaut Neil Armstrong's historic moon walk. Here is how Lowry Digital is approaching the project [20 Jul 2009]
Researchers get ready to learn from Robo-Einstein
Photos Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have brought Albert Einstein to life in the form of a robot [17 Jul 2009]
Behind the scenes at chip firm NXP
Photos Dutch semiconductor company NXP shows how its chips are being used in transport, medicine and smart metering during a tour of its research facility in Eindhoven [10 Jul 2009]
Mobile apps changing the future of air travel
Analysis Airline passengers could one day use their mobile phone as a holiday concierge, with context-aware apps delivering reminders to check in for a flight or book a taxi on landing [06 Jul 2009]
Cern bombards LHC grid with data
News Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern [03 Jul 2009]
LHC restart pushed back again
News Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected [22 Jun 2009]
Ad tech developed that can tell men from women
News Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has produced a system that uses sophisticated algorithms to differentiate facial features [18 Jun 2009]
IBM probe detects an atom's charge
Photos Researchers have come up with a probe that can tell whether a gold atom has a positive, negative or neutral charge, which could lead to new computing devices [15 Jun 2009]
Swedes to unravel the secrets of solar storms
News In a large-scale study at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Uppsala University, physicists and IBM will churn gigabytes a second to learn the sun's dangerous secrets [05 Jun 2009]
Flexible memory developed for chips
News Researchers at US National Institute of Standards and Technology have created a flexible memristor, which can be bent or twisted and remain functional [04 Jun 2009]
Olympics tickets could double as cash, travel cards
News The London 2012 Games may pioneer smart tickets that can also be used as contactless payment and Oyster travel cards [01 Jun 2009]
Revived LHC could run through the winter
News Cern's particle accelerator, currently undergoing repairs, could have its operation extended beyond its schedule despite high energy [27 May 2009]
Air-based battery promises 10 times the power
Photos Researchers at the University of St Andrews see promise in new battery technology using air as a fuel and say it could provide 10 times more power for electric cars, mobile phones and laptops [21 May 2009]
Wolfram Alpha boosted by super-fast HPC
News The machine, built out of Dell hardware by a company called R Systems, can sustain performance of 39.6 trillion mathematical operations per second [14 May 2009]
Ministers progress carbon neutrality plan
News Ministers from the Department of Health and Cabinet Office are implementing and progressing plans to reduce carbon emissions, outlined in the Greening Government ICT Strategy [13 May 2009]
