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Researchers at ETH Zurich have created an app that allows an ordinary smartphone to capture and display three-dimensional models of real-world objects, for subsequent finessing or even 3D printing.

The study of archaeology has long been carried out using tools from the physics lab. What is less well known is that archaeology has also made substantial contributions to physics. This is the story of old lead; why it is important to physics, and what ethical problems it presents to both sciences.

Mosquito prevention can be expensive or unsafe and doesn’t scale in developing countries. New research identifies the primary mosquito receptor responsible for locating people, and tests a promising group of predicted chemicals that circumvent the receptor and are safe, cheap, and smell yummy.

Notable hacker Samy Kamkar recently built SkyJack, a modified Parrot AR.Drone 2 that automatically seeks out the wireless signals of other UAVs, disconnects them from their owners, and then takes control of them, even while in flight.

Tired of trying to plug in a USB cable, only to discover that you have to flip it over? Well, it looks like that design could be going the way of the 5.25-inch floppy disk. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced the development of the new USB Type-C connector, which will work in any orientation.

If you're disappointed by the image quality of your smartphone camera, but don't want to carry a bulky DSLR around, a mirrorless camera should probably be your next gadget purchase. In this guide Gizmag looks at how some of the best mid-range mirrorless cameras stack up against each other.

Moon Express has revealed the design of its MX-1 entry for the Google Lunar X Prize competition. Not a one-trick pony, the MX-1 is intended as the first of a series of robotic spacecraft that can carry out a multitude of tasks in Earth orbit as well as in deep space.

The 21.5-inch Acer Aspire Z3-600 portable All-in-One computer packs a Pentium quad-core processor, Harman Kardon speakers, gesture control, and a 6-cell Li-ion battery that allows for over 2.5 hours of use away from a power outlet.

The value of a thing is what it will bring, or so says an old financial aphorism. It appears that the value of Bitcoins earlier in the month was such than 91.4 Bitcoins = one used Tesla Model S.

The Hangbag is a paper shopping bag that transforms, via a simple set of folds, into a clothes hanger. Thus one product fulfills two distinct but interconnected uses.

DARPA has announced plans to use a foldable plastic lens to “break the glass ceiling” of space telescopes. As part of the Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) program, it aims to replace conventional glass optics with lightweight polymer membranes.

A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE has demonstrated a malware prototype with the ability to jump the "air gap" – meaning that even disconnecting your computer from networks may not be enough to ensure its protection.