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A Prince Rupert's drop looks like a glass tadpole, but it's so strong it can take a hammer hit without breaking, but break its tail with finger pressure and the drop explodes into powder. The reason for has mystified scientists for 400 years, but researchers finally have an answer.

A new study suggests that drones can help save elephants not by scaring away would-be hunters, but by scaring away the elephants themselves.​

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found that a peculiar compound seems to act as a conductor and an insulator at the same time. It could be the first in a completely new class of metallic materials.

A piece of cybernetic history returned home as a long-lost component of the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the first practical general purpose computers, was returned to Britain from the United States.

A new prototype flexible display created by the University of Cambridge and UK firm Plastic Logic, represents the first time graphene has been used in a transistor-based flexible screen and may well provide the least expensive, easiest to manufacture solution for these devices yet.

iPhones with cracked screens may become a less common sight, if Rhino Shield takes off. The clear coating, which is designed to applied over top of a device's existing screen, is said to be five times more impact-resistant than Gorilla Glass 2.

This Saturday marks one hundred years since computer pioneer and cryptographer Alan Turing was born.

Scientists have developed a table that uses moss to generate power for devices such as laptops.

Scientists at Cambridge University have built robots out of LEGO, to assist in their research into creating artificial bone.

Research from Cambridge University suggests that multi-word pass-phrases may be vulnerable to dictionary-style attacks.

A high school physics teacher has invented a method of producing microfluidic devices, using little else than a photocopier and transparency film.

Microsoft's SenseCam technology is now being manufactured as the Vicon Revue, which intermittently snaps photos through the front-facing, wide-angle lens, and is being aimed at people suffering from memory disorders.