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Dr Graham Doig from the University of New South Wales' School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering is examining whether explosives could be used to fight out-of-control forest and bushfires by blasting the flames out of treetops, slowing the fire and making it easier to fight on the ground.

The privacy of the online data has been a hot topic over the last year. In order to protect against unwanted snooping, a group of scientists has created a new secure email service. ProtonMail provides end-to-end encryption, meaning that even the company itself can't see your messages.

Solar Flight has announced that husband and wife team Eric and Irene Raymond have taken to the skies together, making the Duo the first solar-powered airplane to carry two people.

With a premium build, strong specs and great battery life,the HTC One (M8) is the current Android king. But after just two months on the market, the LG G3 as arrived to challenge its dominance with some show-stopping specs. Read on as Gizmag compares these two Android heavyweights.

In 2009 Shimano brought electronic gear-shifting to road bikes, in the form of its Dura-Ace Di2 group. Now, however, the company has announced the upcoming release of XTR M9050 Di2, which will allow mountain bikers to swap their derailleur cables for electrical wiring.

By exploiting the difference between the speed of two different beams of colored light when traveling through a heated crystalline disk, University of Adelaide researchers claim to have produced the world's most sensitive thermometer – with an accuracy of 30 billionths of a degree.

One of the challenges in monitoring the health of our pets is the fact that they can't tell us when they're starting to feel a little poorly. We only know that there's something wrong once it's obvious. PetPace is designed to let pet owners know that something's up, before it reaches that point.

Apple has taken the wraps off the latest iteration of its mobile operating system. The new version of iOS uses the same design language as its predecessor while adding a range of tweaks to the user experience, a richer feature set and a fresh suite of developer tools.

KinderLab Robotics has launched a new robot building and programming platform called Kibo that's designed for youngsters from 4 years and up. After creating a custom robot build, kids then put colored program wooden blocks into order before scanning the sequence into the base and pressing go.

If you're shopping for a new MacBook, do you go for light and thin with a mediocre display – like the MacBook Air? Or do you spend more for a beefier build but an amazing display, a la the Retina MacBook Pro? Let's revisit the 13-in MacBook Pro with Retina Display, and see if we can help.

The Walking Bicycle is a machine that turns your normal walking action into forward momentum, but with a lot more speed than you could manage on your own. It includes an electric motor that means even steep hills shouldn't be a problem.

After six runnings of the Isle of Man TT electric motorcycle race, just short of five decades of progress have been achieved in five years. After dominating practice with a new lap record with every session, the Mugen Shinden San delivered a 1-2 finish to claim another decade of progress.