One technology that has seemingly come out of nowhere in recent years is the 3D printer. More correctly called additive manufacturing, it ha...

As an avid science-fiction reader during my childhood, one of the most outstanding extrapolations for future technology was that of the spac...

Ever since the first cyberpunk novels of the early 1980s - and the massive increase of public awareness in the genre thanks to Hollywood - t...

With Raspberry Pi computers having sold over eleven million units by the end of last year, consumer interest in older technology appears to ...

As a young and impressionable teenager I recall staying up once a week after the adults in my home had gone to bed in order to watch an amaz...

With the UK narrowly avoiding France's fate of a triple dip recession, I thought I would bite the bullet and examine some of the economi...

A few evenings ago I saw the International Space Station. It was dusk, and walking home with the family we were looking at Jupiter when a mo...

It's astonishing to think that in less than two weeks' time it will be half a century since Yuri Gargarin slipped the surly bonds of...

Although cybernetics, the truly personal interfacing of man and machine, has long been discussed in both fact and fiction, far less attentio...

As Major Tim Peake undergoes training as the first British citizen to join the European Space Agency's (ESA) Astronaut Corps, it's a...

The current bickering in Copenhagen seemingly ignores a rather pertinent issue: our skills and experience in reversing climate change are al...