Keys at your fingertips, but the technology isn't there yet. Credit: Rachmaninoff, CC BY-SA By Andrew Smith, The Open University How can we ensure that someone is who they say they are? How can be…

Artificial hearts were invented at a time when progress in science couldn't come fast enough. In 1969, when they first went into human use, DDT hadn't been banned, vaccines were considered the…

Data from an initial representative 938-subject sample of  a 4,800-subject colorectal cancer trial at Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen demonstrated that the NuQ® blood-based diagnostic platform…

Rebuilding Microsoft one block at a time.Credit: animeareftw, CC BY-NC-ND By Mark Skilton, University of Warwick Just as the game Minecraft sees players build their virtual world block by block,…

Snooping is not allowed. Credit: Paul Walsh, CC BY-NC-SA By Grant Blank, University of Oxford Standing on a stage in San Francisco in early 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that as…

A 'less is more' approach is not only making 3-D printed parts lighter and stronger, but faster and more economical. A new technique under development is high speed sintering (HSS). Unlike…

VFH and UFH portions of the radio spectrum are reserved for over the air television broadcasts and the FCC keeps plenty of space between channels to prevent interference. But unused UHF TV spectrum…

An ortho-oncology team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center successfully adapted a shoulder surgical aid, the Spider Limb Positioner, to conduct a left hip disarticulation on a melanoma…

Since the failures of some metal on metal hip implants were brought to light, the introduction of new joint implants has been the focus of major scientific and policy discussions, but regulation '…

Statistics - learning from data and of measuring, controlling and communicating uncertainty - has become important to science and it is vital to the future of science, Science 2.0. Over the last 200…