Sci-Tech news

• Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel

  29-10-2016 21:00
  
  By: Rowland ManthorpeContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• Swiss railway ticket machines to sell Bitcoin digital currency

  29-10-2016 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Switzerland's national rail service will begin selling the digital currency Bitcoin at ticket machines.
  
  Read more

• Mobile phone reception: How bad is the signal in Cumbria?

  29-10-2016 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of MPs have called on mobile phone companies to allow customers to roam between providers to improve reception.
  
  Read more

• Gear WIRED loves: the €2,499 portable arcade R-Kaid-R

  29-10-2016 18:00
  
  By: Kathryn NaveContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Scientists claim to have developed model to solve five of the biggest problems facing physic

  29-10-2016 16:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The model, known as SMASH, is a ‘minimal extension’ of the Standard Model, and can account for inflation, dark matter, baryogenesis, neutrino oscillations, and the strong CP problem.
  
  Read more

• Boffins one step closer to solving nanoscale computer challenge

  29-10-2016 16:01 via go.theregister.com
  
  Design could nail Feynman Grand Challenge Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a design of a working nanoscale computing device that could complete the Feynman Grand Challenge.…
  
  Read more

• Allow mobile phone network roaming in UK, urge MPs

  29-10-2016 15:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs urge firms to allow customers to roam between mobile networks in areas of the UK where reception is weak.
  
  Read more

• This lake near Rwanda hides enough energy to power the country for 50 years

  29-10-2016 13:00
  
  By: Kathryn NaveContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• 'More TV, film and gaming' crossover following Skylanders: Academy success

  29-10-2016 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The team behind Skylanders: Academy explain to Newsbeat there's scope for more of their gaming franchises to make the jump to the small and big screen.
  
  Read more

• Samsung are amateurs – NASA shows how you really do a battery fire

  29-10-2016 10:08 via go.theregister.com
  
  RoboSimian up in smoke after engineering error Samsung might think it's the king of exploding kit, what with smartphones and washing machines going up in flames, but in June NASA engineers schooled the firm on how to really make a bang.…
  
  Read more

• 95% of the trees could be killed off in a repeat of the Dutch elm disease

  29-10-2016 02:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fears that Britain’s 125million ash trees will be wiped out by ash dieback have increased after it was revealed the killer fungus is even more lethal than first thought.
  
  Read more

• Researchers reveal the smells cadaver dogs are trained to sniff out

  29-10-2016 01:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Death will eventually come for all living creatures, but decomposition is far more complicated, and the distinct smell of a human corpse differs from that of another animal, a new Reactions vidoe explains.
  
  Read more

• Researchers say the universe IS expanding after all

  29-10-2016 01:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tamara Davis from The University of Queensland believes the a study suggesting our universe is expanding at a marginal rate is misleading, as there is ample evidence that proves otherwise.
  
  Read more

• CDC creates comic on how to survive a zombie apoclaypse

  29-10-2016 00:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a joint effort with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Center for Disease Control has released a ‘Preparedness 101’ guide for a zombie pandemic (or any other emergency).
  
  Read more

• National Geographic's miniseries reveal what first habitats on another planet could look like

  29-10-2016 00:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At first glance, it looks like an igloo - but in fact, this could be man's first home on Mars. National Geographic created it for a new show on the red Planet, and plans to build it for real in London.
  
  Read more

• Facebook under fire for changing reaction emojis with Halloween characters

  29-10-2016 00:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sad face reaction has been replaced by a Frankenstein face on Facebook. Now, users are upset and disgusted to see the emjoi displayed under posts about deceased loved ones.
  
  Read more

Follow @scitech_UK on Twitter!