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Have you ever thought that light bulbs could do no more than just lighting up your room? Somewhere in the future you might just be able to connect to the internet with them! Li-Fi, an alternative t...

In an effort to save the massive amount of energy standard streetlights consume, and to present drivers with more information on the road, a Dutch company has transformed a highway in the Netherland...

It is a phrase familiar to many cyclists who have come a cropper on our roads and retained the ability to hear the words: "Sorry mate, I just didn't see you." But how could you not see a big lump of ...

It’s no secret that power is everything when it comes to cycling. If you can’t measure how much power you are putting out, there is no way to tell if you are hitting your goals and reaching the l...

Penang Hill is a must do for every cyclist !   It's a great test of your leg muscles, lung and endurance. Everyday you can see young and old cyclists going up this challenging hill.   Some are reg...

NASA finally unveils its findings so far on all their potential life sustainable planets outside of the solar system. In an effort to find life-habitable worlds outside our Solar System, stars simi...

Google Glass, is a cool new device being developed by tech giant Google. It is a wearable specs running on Android (which is also developed by Google), that enables people to surf the net, GPS, s...

Pearl Hill, an upscale neighbourhood in Tanjung Bungah, Penang where you can find a forest trail filled with bitumen ensures a smoother ride. A very good place for cyclist to start their decent h...

[+] Professor Stephen Hawking has predicted that it could be possible to preserve a mind as powerful as his on a computer — but not with technology existing today, The Telegraph repor...

Even if an errant asteroid, nuclear holocaust or other disaster don't d...

  Some time in the distant future — the really distant future, like 5 billion years or so — our sun will begin to run out of fuel. It will begin to swell, its outer layers ex...

  Sending texts after a phone’s battery dies sounds impossible, right? Soon it might not, thanks to a new technology that not only uses TV and Wi-Fi signals for device communi...

In 1996, a ranger flying a helicopter over Death Valley, Calif., spotted a minivan in a wash near Anvil Canyon. That was ominous for several reasons: There was no road leading up to the spot, and th...

The era of wearable electronics will dawn this fall now that Samsung is set to unveil its Galaxy Gear smartwatch early next month, just days before Apple’s iWatch is set to go on sale. This i...

Solar Impulse on a 2011 flight over Switzerland. Copyright Solar Impulse. The much-anticipated private solar-powered plane Solar Impulse took off from California this morning on a flight acr...

New tetrahertz computer chips could be used to create smartphone sensors that can detect gestures and screen for cancer. Tiny T-ray chips are far smaller than a penny. Kaus...

Pull apart any electrical device and you will find a riot of right angles, straight lines and flat, uncompromising silicon wafers. John Rogers is changing that. The 45-year-old materia...

UNICEF, in collaboration with Gothia Cup, have developed the world's first sweat machine: a device that extracts moisture from clothes, purifies it and transforms it into water. This is achieved ...

5th August 2013 Last year, Dutch scientists demonstrated a rudimentary form of synthetic meat, consisting of thin strips of muscle tissue derived from a cow's stem cells. They have now gone a s...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a new flexible nano-scaffold for rechargeable lithium ion batteries that could help make cell phone and electric car batteries last longer...

For the first time anywhere, electric buses can provide public transportation services that are recharged right from the road.     The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Ko...

A research team in Hangzhou in China’s eastern Zhejiang province has taken a big step toward fulfilling the dream of producing body parts that can be transplanted without fear of rejection. ...

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Just 3 miles from the summit of L'Alpe d'Huez in the French Alps, Chris Froome felt as if he were about to hit "the wall". Taking a rule-breaking sugar-gel cost him a 20-second penalty but he finish...

DID you hear the one about the flies in the toilet? They took off, flew round the world, and started a revolution. It was 1999, and the authorities at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam were looking ...

Aliens could be watching aliens watching aliens. That's a realistic prospect now that three potentially habitable planets – a record – have been glimpsed orbiting the same star. Earlier studie...

Publishing, music, shopping, journalism – all revolutionized by the Internet. Next in line? Education. Now U.S. academics are offering world-class tuition — free — to anyone who can log o...

RoboRoach The RoboRoach, a Kickstarter project, is the “world’s first commercially available cyborg” — part cockroach and part machine. The backpack communicat...

A startup that lets you have your own cloud servers at home is part of a movement that is turning its back on conventional cloud computing IS THIS the death of the cloud as we know it? Space Monke...

Graphene, the wonder material whose glittering array of electrical and thermal properties won its discoverers a Nobel prize in 2010, could soon be helping Apple's iPhones and iPads pack more power. ...