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It's safe to say that any task which involves going up high is at least somewhat dangerous. The HB1 robot was designed with this fact in mind, as it climbs walls and even scuttles across ceilings so people don't have to.

Although an increasing number of countries are switching to sturdier, harder-to-copy polymer banknotes, the things still are being counterfeited. A new technology could help weed those fakes out, by taking their fingerprints.

Debris orbiting in high Earth orbit is not being tracked closely enough, according to the results of a new survey, and could pose an unexpected threat to important satellites that provide communication, weather observation and navigation services.

When an electric car's lithium-ion battery is damaged or found to be defective, it has to be transported for recycling/disposal in an expensive explosion-proof container. According to a new study, though, such batteries could soon simply be frozen.

Researchers at Cambridge and the University of Warwick have jumped ahead to the logical endpoint of Moore's Law and shrunk wires down to a string of single atoms. Effectively one dimensional, these “extreme nanowires” are made of tellurium, compressed inside carbon nanotubes to keep them stable.

Imagine if you were in charge of putting cars into shipping containers. Given all the shapes and sizes you might be working with, how would you know which ones to put together, and in what configurations? Well, that's where new racking software developed at the University of Warwick comes in.

Gizmag talks to to Dr. Christopher Moran about 20th century Intelligence and its peculiar relationship with a certain fictional British spy.

Students at the University of Warwick have announced their intention to build a human-powered submarine to compete at that highlight of the human-powered submarine events calendar, the European International Submarine Races in 2014.

University of Warwick researchers have created a material that can be used to cheaply 3D-print simple functioning electronic devices.

Researchers have found that adding nanodiamonds to laundry detergent doubles its effectiveness in cold water.

The “WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car” is a racer that is powered by chocolate, steered by carrots, has bodywork made from potatoes, and can still do 125mph, (201kmh), around corners.

At the Pioneer 09 science show in London last week researchers unveiled a mock-up of a virtual reality headset designed to stimulate not just sight and hearing, but all five senses.