Dom Gilchrist on improvements to the new social network, now open to all
Aqil Taiyeb
After $14 Billion and 800 trillion collisions, Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN are claiming to...
Injectable gel to replace cataract surgery - researchers are hoping that one day, elderly patients suffering from cataracts could walk away with the clear vision of a young person...
Aqil Taiyeb
Legal shots are being fired across the globe as technology giants Samsung and Apple battle it out for legal...
Aqil Taiyeb
Being at one of the best universities in the country, let alone the world, has its perks, and several awards...
Last year saw one of the biggest multiformat releases ever, in the form of Portal 2 – 360, PS3 and...
Despite the slight possibility of incurring the wrath of a Roman War God, humans have been very, very curious about...
John Glanville
Gamescom is Europe’s answer to E3: in fact, it arose partly as a result of the ‘dialled back’ E3 in...
The horror genre is something of the red-headed stepchild in games: genre conventions from film and literature are near-intrinsically subverted...
Eleanor Armstrong
Coming up to Oxford is filled with ideals of lounging in old building, reading romantic novels, soaking up the intellect...
While Facebook became cluttered with consistently poor banner ads, Twitter has passed through the overt commercialisation of social networks with...
Gone are the days of being attached to bulky monitors and machines if you have a weak heart. Researchers have...
John Glanville
This week, I have been mostly playing Tribes: Ascend, in search of a fresh shooter. Ironically, ‘fresh’ in this case...
Andrew Lewis pithily tells us in a 2010 Metafilter discussion that ‘If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the...
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single molecule in possession of an interesting structure, must be in want...
Aqil Taiyeb
A world without crime, a world where the bad guys are always caught, a world where the good guys are...
John Glanville
High priest of nerdom John Glanville brings you the inside track on the future of gaming from this year’s Gamescom...
Aqil Taiyeb
Everybody has watched Usain Bolt casually breeze past the finish line in his races – a little grace, a little...
Lorren Eldridge
One of the unfortunate things about science is that once you get to a certain level you either tend to...