A quick injection in the back of the mouth can now silence snorers. The snoreplasty procedure is simple, effective and relatively painless. And at a mere US$35 it could be a wise investment if you’re sharing your bed with an ‘offender’ and are becoming homicidal through lack of sleep
Conducting a bit of astronomical archaeology, researchers have dug up 43-year-old photographic evidence of an ancient black hole and used the information to learn that the object has been wandering at high speed on an odd, looping path through the Milky Way Galaxy for 7 billion years
A swig of beer could one day protect you from HIV, if a US company succeeds in making an ultra-cheap vaccine out of brewer’s yeast. Because a yeast-based vaccine could be brewed up quickly and easily, it would be very cheap. Just 100 litres could provide 5 million doses
Researchers have found that control programs based on the foraging behaviour of ants can keep data networks running more efficiently and cope with congestion better than many human alternatives
One of the oldest forms of life on Earth has been revealed as a natural born computer programmer
Aspiring basketballers who want to be taller could one day genetically modify themselves to have their dreams fulfilled now that Melbourne researchers have discovered two genes that are vital in determining the height of men
About a million schoolchildren across Britain have taken part in a mass jump — but their feet failed to make the impact scientists had hoped for
The earth is at risk from the universe suddenly turning inside-out
, causing human life to be extinguished at the speed of light. Dr Benjamin Allanach, from the particle physics laboratory at CERN in Geneva, warned of the prospect of a black wave sweeping over the world
Wind-up mobile phones could soon be the answer to fading batteries after scientists announced they had invented a clockwork charger
The advent of environmentally friendly explosives has moved a step closer, with German scientists solving the problem of water absorption in one promising compound — the moisture literally turns the compound into a damp squib
Future spacecraft could be shot into orbit from a giant flying air gun, according to a US Air Force plan. The radical launch system would be fitted to standard cargo planes in hours and could slash the cost of getting satellites into space
A material that might pass as Play-Doh for Magneto, the mutant master of magnetism in the Marvel Comics universe, may be critical to the success of future space missions in ways both mundane and exotic
Renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking has claimed that humans should be genetically engineered if they are to compete with the phenomenal growth of artificial intelligence
Results from Britain’s first clinical trial of cannabis as a medicine show big benefits to those suffering chronic pain
What you’d really like is a solar panel array that would come on a flexible plastic substrate which would be extremely inexpensive and which you could roll out on your roof like wall paper. It would be efficient enough at energy conversion to economically generate power
An electronic circuit, grown from silicon and nerve cells, brings brain-repair chips, advanced biosensors and biological computers a small step towards reality
When it comes to technological arrogance, nature has a nasty sense of humour
Thousands of scientists around the world will soon be boycotting academic journals that refuse to make their contents freely available on the web soon after publication. The boycott could mean scientists refusing to submit papers to journals and refusing to review the work of their peers for any journal that does not deposit research papers into an online public library of science
The European Space Agency is studying science fiction for ideas and technologies that could be used in future missions. A panel of readers is currently combing sci-fi novels and short stories published in the early decades of the last century to see if technology has caught up with ideas that were futuristic when first put into print
Brighter than the full Moon, as loud as a sonic boom, and weighing as much as a ton when it arrived, a fireball that fell on Colorado on 17 August has proven difficult to find
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