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We all know four dimensions – height, width, depth and time – but there might be 11. If you have a hard time wrapping your head around that, we've got news for you: your brain regularly makes use of these 11 dimensions to process information, according to a new study by the EPFL in Switzerland.

​Although mosquitoes certainly do go after people during daylight hours, they're most active once the sun goes down. Therefore, if an "artificial sun" were to then come up, would that cause them to bite less throughout the night? According to a new study, the answer is Yes.

The general malaise in the collectibles industry continued last week when one of only six known working Apple I computers sold for just US$355,000. It is the cheapest working Apple I computer​ to have sold in recent times and far short of the world record of $905,000​.

Love it or hate it, Swedish scientists have another reason for you to finish your broccoli: sulforaphane, an antioxidant found in the vegetable, could be Nature’s secret weapon against Type 2 diabetes, offering obese patients a way to slash their blood glucose levels and fight the disease. ​​

​Of the concerns that people have regarding electric cars, one of the most often-heard is that their batteries won't work in cold weather. That may not be an issue in the future, however – scientists have created a new type of electrolyte that allows batteries to work at ultra-cold temperatures.

An extremely rare German four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine used by the German U-boat forces in the Second World War has set a new world auction record at a Christie's sale at Rockefeller Center in New York. The property of an American collector, it sold for US$547,500.

Last year, billionaire SpaceX founder and space-fan Elon Musk delivered an expansive, hour-long presentation, outlining his ambitious plan to get humanity to Mars. Musk has recently published a research paper adapted from that presentation entitled "Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species".

When scientists look for extraterrestrial life, they typically turn their focus upwards, to planets like Mars, moons like Enceladus and exoplanets beyond our own solar system. But for Lara Rowe, an assistant professor of chemistry at Valparaiso University in Indiana, the search begins in the lab.

​​Underwater drones can be mighty useful for exploring the oceans, but they do have some drawbacks, namely how far they can travel on each charge. A startup spun out of MIT has built what could be a game-changer for these types of watercraft.

The Vacanti Spirale is a wine glass with a corkscrew-like twist that captures sediment.​ Given this a problem that would have confronted every other wine-drinking civilization of the last 10,000 years, it's quite astonishing it hasn't been done before.

Unlike humans, the gender of reptiles such as crocodiles is determined by the temperature during the incubation process. When the mercury rises, their eggs hatch as females. Now, scientists in Australia think they might have finally cracked the code of this decades-long mystery.

Activities like yoga and meditation are credited with their spiritual benefits, but scientists are discovering a range of physical benefits as well. Now researchers have discovered that activities that link body and mind can actually reverse a genetic process that leads to inflammation and disease.