Eve the robot scientist discovers new drugs on her own
An artificial intelligence, a robot scientist that researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester and Aberystwyth have called ‘Eve’, could well make drug discovery a...
Pfizer to buy Hospira for $17 billion in a cash deal
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. announced on Thursday it is to acquire Hospira Inc. for $90 per share in an approx. $17 billion cash deal....
Humans can now sense magnetic fields with a sensor placed on the skin
Magnetoception, the ability to sense magnetic fields, is something birds, insects, turtles, sharks, stingrays and bacteria have to perceive direction, altitude or location, but...
Warm period 3m years ago confirms IPCC climate change predictions
Between 2.3 and 3.3 million years ago, atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to what they are now, and the Earth was about 2ºC warmer...
Most stars have two Earth-like planets orbiting them
Most stars in our Galaxy - the Milky Way - have about two Earth-like planets orbiting them, Australian researchers reported. This means that just...
Alan Turing codebreaking notes used to stop draughts in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park
Top-secret documents belonging to Alan Turing, best-known for helping decipher the code created by German Enigma machines in World War II, have been found...
Microsoft acquiring calendar app maker Sunrise for $100 million
Microsoft is reportedly acquiring the calendar app maker Sunrise for around $100 million, according to a TechCrunch report on Wednesday.
Another report published by Re/code...
Plant genus named Sirdavidia after Sir David Attenborough by Gabonese and French botanists
In honour of Sir David Attenborough's influence on their lives and careers, Gabonese and French botanists have named a genus of flowering plants Sirdavidia. The...
Tablet sales dropped for first time by 3.2% in Q4 2014, IDC report
Tablet sales dropped by 3.2 percent in the last quarter year-over-year, according to an IDC report. It is the first time that tablet sales...
Original part of one of the world’s first computers resurfaces in the USA
A rare original part of one of the world’s first computers – EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) – has resurfaced in the United...