Towards printable solar cells

New perovskite solar cells have achieved an efficiency of 20.1 per cent and can be manufactured at low temperatures, which reduces the cost and expands the number of possible applications.

Big spenders

Worldwide R&D expenditures and other science and technology indicators by ranked country.

Humans fold

An artificial-intelligence program known as Libratus has beaten the world's absolute best human poker players in a 20-day No-Limit Texas Hold'em tournament.

Energy saver

Material can turn sunlight, heat and movement into electricity ... all at once.

Aid or accusation?

The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators

Graphene is good for ...?

£120m down, UK.gov finds it's still a long way from commercial potential. Wonder material, not wonder market

Beans mean graphene

A breakthrough by CSIRO-led scientists has made the world’s strongest material more commercially viable, thanks to the humble soybean.

iPhone 7 propels Apple to record-shattering sales

Apple sold 5.4 million Macs and 78.3 million iPhones in the last three months of 2016.

Honey, I shrunk the AFM!

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created an atomic force microscope on a chip using MEMS.

Churchill saw great opportunity for exploration in the Solar System

“Are we alone in the Universe?” an essay by a lesser known science writer, Winston Churchill, has just been unearthed.

Big chip spending on R&D

Intel spent $12.7bn on R&D in 2016, 22.4% as a percentage of sales.