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Californian electrical engineers have been trying to do just that, an amazing new nano-tree device created out of cheap, abundant materials. Incredibly, these creations use sunlight to split H2O - water molecules - into the base elements of oxygen and hydrogen, freeing them up for us...

The machines in question, dubbed two-photon lithography printers, can produce detailed structures as small as a grain of sand, and this stunning printed version of the Viennese St. Stephan's Cathedral is only 50 micrometers wide maximum.

So-called quantum dots will make the next generation of LCD TVs much more colour sensitive, and therefore that much more true to life, colours emitted by semiconducting nano-crystals fine-tuned by simple size altering.

Kohei Tsuji and Akira Wakita devised paper that changes colour because of tiny microscopic capsules of temperature-sensitive liquid crystal ink. Operating like plastic touch screens do, in that the minute changes in electricity caused by touching are detected, with the paper.

Information and speculation about how super-fast 4G mobile phone networks will affect video chat on mobile phones.

Today, it's probably true that your whole life is centered and stored on your computer, whether it be a desktop, notebook, or tablet. And in an instant, it could be G O N E ! Hard disks crash, notebook computers get stolen and tablets get dropped and then what do you do? Now is ...

This contest really does throw up incredible pictures, showing the beauty and complexity of life the naked eye could never see, as -imaged via light microscopes.

Researchers could now, it seems, be only six months from producing artificial meat from human stem cells. Even though these cells would be bred in laboratories, the news did send a wave of fascinated revulsion circling the globe.

Jonas Pfeil decided he had the urge to create a panoramic camera ball, as an ambitious student at the Berlin Technical University, he, along with other researchers could not hsve known how well they would succeed.

Human beings are fascinated by the prospect of treasure, and nothing could ever offer a bigger thrill than finding something so valuable, it sets you up for life.

An IBM creation has been hailed as a step on the road to cognitive computing. machines with human-like abilities like learning and recognition.

When you consider that the deepest ocean trenches have never really been fully examined, the possibilities are breath-taking.

Clean and renewable energy is the big ambition for many governments, Spain being a leader in the field, awarding SENER, which commercially develops, builds, owns and operates these plants a 25-year regulated tariff.

Hair-thin electronic patches which stick to the skin in the same way that temporary tattoos stay put, making the transformation of not only medical sensors, but also other applications involving espionage and computer gaming a real probability in the future.

If no data filtering in Internet usage, then the negative effects will be free to grow.