Our unprecedented ability to collect, store and analyse data is opening up new frontiers in science and the humanities.
A new app gives UK residents the chance to get involved in an ambitious, ground-breaking science experiment that could save lives.
Electron ‘spin’ could hold the key to managing the world’s growing data demands without consuming huge amounts of energy. Now, researchers have...
India’s booming business centres and gleaming shopping malls mask a grimmer reality. While one section of the population gets richer, another...
A faster and more accurate method of identifying which of an individual’s genes are associated with particular symptoms has been developed by a...
Alexander Taylor provides a sensory snapshot of his fieldwork in high-security subterranean data centres exploring fears of technological failure...
‘Big data’ study finds that children from families with limited education have strongest long-term response to teacher encouragement, and are more...
Dr Jag Srai, Head of the Centre for International Manufacturing at Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing, and colleagues are developing new ways...
It’s long been associated with anger and coarseness but profanity can have another, more positive connotation. Psychologists have learned that...
The digital revolution is one of the great social transformations of our time. How can we make the most of it, and also minimise and manage its...
