Frank Swain

The remote-controlled Groundbot, designed by Swedish firm Rotundus, can trundle through snow, mud and sand as it supplies a live feed via a pair of cameras.

Short article on a stereoscopic camera used to make accurate measurements of sharks from a safe distance.

Over the last twenty years, Indonesia’s agricultural policies have made it the world’s leading producer of valuable palm oil, but unclear land ownership issues and a lack of leadership in…

With meticulous care, they ground crystals to ever finer powders, cutting, cleaving, polishing and inspecting, like expert jewellers coaxing gems from lumps of unappealing carbon.

Like the students dancing in Flegr’s loft to music no one else can hear, the patterns of behaviour in our brains may be choreographed to some invisible, long silent orchestra

Chilled-out mice could point the way to reduced heart-attack damage in humans.

“Sometimes you can’t just go into a lab and get the evidence overnight. I think there are enough pointers that we should be talking about this rather than stressing about…

A fake immunisation programme used to trace Osama bin Laden has undermined medical aid and put lives at risk

We’re really interested in the material nature of the world around us – in what the natural building blocks are of the visible physical world…

SpaceChem, a science-themed puzzler hailed as one of the year’s best indie games, is aiming to make the leap from bedrooms to classrooms in the latest attempt to inspire a…

Bo Brinkman, a computer scientist at Miami University, has developed an augmented reality (AR) app which he hopes can facilitate and speed up the job of finding misplaced books and…

The insidious spread of the latest form of antibiotic resistance is just one more sign that governments haven’t grasped the gravity of the situation Read the full article at the…

In central Europe, a speeding car ploughs into the central reservation, killing the driver. At exactly the same moment in rural Ireland, a shepherd watches in despair as two thirds…

Short feature on the science of memory.

A team of security experts from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Washington, led by Professor Stefan Savage, have now identified a variety of weak points…

Ever wanted to make your own tornado? Now a new $23.6 million hexagonal wind tunnel in Canada will allow scientists to do just that. Read the full article at New…

Cheap sports shoes can be as good as expensive ones, says Benno Nigg, the sports scientist who helped design David Beckham’s Predator boot. Read the full article here. Image CC…

Six-page feature in the Times Eureka, on the science used by the world’s top online dating websites to successfully match singletons together. Image CC Rosaura Ochoa (Flickr)

A specially outfitted transmission electron microscope allowed the effect of electrical charging on nanostructures to be seen in action

The device uses no electronics, and works on normal 2D images or video.

Companies such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic herald a new age where the heavens are within reach of anyone who can afford a ticket.

After being stuck on yellow for the past five years, America’s terror alert system is being scrapped. Do warning systems like this serve any practical purpose?

Researchers are sifting through internet traffic in search of suspicions patterns that will lead to the perpetrators of child pornography

Imagine taking a midnight stroll, your route lit by row upon row of trees glowing a ghostly blue…

A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles – with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan

“These tiny crystals are set to find their way into everything from mobile phones to cancer-fighting drugs. Typically made from metals such as cadmium or zinc, quantum dots measure just…