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At one of its plants in Japan, Nissan Motor  is testing self-driving cars that can tow vehicles on a trailer to the wharf for loading on transport ships. The Japanese automaker thinks the technology will, in the long run, save costs and…

The new spaceship by Virgin Galactic has made a successful first glide flight, a key step after a deadly crash of its predecessor two years ago, the spaceflight company have said. The new SpaceShipTwo, dubbed VSS Unity, was hoisted aloft…

Machine learning is a powerful tool used for a variety of tasks in modern life, from fraud detection and sorting spam in Google, to making movie recommendations on Netflix. Now a team of researchers from the University of Toronto…

A new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models have missed, has been developed by MIT researchers. The researchers designed a…

It can take as little as six seconds to work out the card number, expiry date and security code of any Visa credit or debit cardand uses nothing more than guesswork, new research has shown. Research published in the academic journal IEEE…

Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may contain similarly exotic oceans, naturally leading to the question of life, said…

Observations of the smallest asteroid ever characterized in detail, has been obtained by astronomers. At 2m (6ft.) in diameter, the tiny space rock is small enough to be straddled by a person in a hypothetical space-themed sequel to the…

To make a key discovery that could help make solar cells more efficient, a University of California, Riverside Assistant Professor has combined photosynthesis and physics. The findings were recently published in the journal Nano Letters.…

Science fiction as we know it would not exist without Hugo Gernsback. He coined the term 'science fiction' as the editor and publisher of Amazing Stories, the first magazine devoted to the burgeoning genre, which he launched in 1926. The…