Mary-Ann Russon

Researchers have eliminated a potential problem with quantum computing using the degenerate perturbation theory.

Three volunteers have spent 105 days living in a 500 cubic-metre module cultivating plants to feed themselves.

UK company behind phones for kids and senior citizens launches first customisable Braille phone.

Otome dating simulator mobile app games from Japan like My Forged Wedding have become a hit with women worldwide

Oregon man claiming to be fighting Morgoth from JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion arrested for stabbing woman's car.

Rembrandts, Picassos, Manets, Van Goghs are some of the pieces of art downloadable for scholarly purposes.

The button previously influenced more people to vote during the 2010 US elections.

Hayao Miyazaki's swan song pays tribute to Italian and Japanese WWII aircraft designers Gianni Caproni and Jiro Horikoshi

Stuck solving Google Doodle based on Ernő Rubik's famous 3D logic game?

More popular than Second Life, Utherverse gives 50 million people the chance to escape to a virtual life where they can fulfil their wildest dreams.

Welcome to Utherverse, the ultimate escapism where you can live out your wildest dreams and fantasies, while making money to boot. 50 million people are currently playing this online game, where you have an avatar and can explore thousands of online worlds in the game's universe. Utherverse is meant to be a social network community as well as a game, to enable people to interact, make new friends and even fall in love and have sex. Its free to join, and you can earn virtual currency by being sociable, which you can use to buy and decorate your dream house, or to buy all the clothes and shoes you've ever dreamed of wearing. You can go on dates with other avatars, party in one of the many bars and clubs, or even get high on virtual drugs. Best of all, you can actually work a virtual job paying virtual currency that can be converted into real money. You can perform a service for other avatars like DJ-ing at a party, planning a virtual wedding, or even teaching other users computer programming at UtherAcademy, the game's university. Utherverse plays host to over 1,200 virtual weddings a year, some of which are for people who eloped to Las Vegas in real life and want to have a magical day that doesn't cost much. There are many companies on Utherverse that run virtual worlds offering services that users can pay for, and the game is now expanding to include virtual conventions and education services.

A Roman encampment from 2AD near Hachelbich discovered in Thuringia in Eastern Germany.

Mesh structures or a water droplet network? MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers devise different methods.

Famous Jewish wine cabinet auctioned off on eBay spawned book, movie and worldwide obsession with buying haunted items

600 items from Apollo 1 to Apollo 17, including items used by Neil Armstrong in first moon landing go on auction.

Scientists have invented an affordable way for paraplegics to move a wheelchair with their eyes.

If you want to know how to delete yourself from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or YouTube, you've come to the right place

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham-Carter and Warwick Davis reunite to film scenes for ride

Keen UFO watcher Scott Waring has spotted a UFO orbiting Mars in Curiosity Rover photographs.

Unesco Bangkok has launched Sai Fah – The Flood Fighter to train children about flood dangers.

Sexually explicit content leads to website ban by Ministry of Communications and Information

University of Connecticut Chemical engineering students have designed an artificial kidney using hollow fibre membrane technology.

Robots have been in the news lately, with a poll finding that a third of the UK public is afraid of robots taking over their jobs. But what about robots in the home?

Researchers develop app to lull people to sleep by stopping their brains processing thoughts

In light of Edward Snowden's spying revelations, Leo Selvaggio wants you to wear his face in public in order to hide from CCTV cameras.

UN to decide if fully autonomous weapons are legitimate law enforcement tool, but human rights activists say no

Researchers want app that measures gait to be recognised as official medical monitor for heart and lung patients.

Researchers have demonstrated that non-living plastic materials can repair and regenerate by themselves.

Scientists have worked out how to neutralise chemical weapons like Sarin gas using carbon nanotubes.