A HOMINID that lived in southern Siberia some 40,000 years ago could be a new branch on the human family tree, a finding that would rewrite mankind’s exodus from Africa and conquest of the Earth. Scientists have announced they sequenced DNA from the bone fragment of a pinkie finger, possibly from a...

AN international study may have found a link between long-term mobile phone use and brain tumours. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is to release a 10-year study into the connection between mobile phones and cancer. The report will set alarm bells ringing in Australia, which has one of the world’s...

IBM is looking to the building blocks of our bodies – DNA – to be the structure of next-generation microchips. As chipmakers compete to develop ever-smaller chips at cheaper prices, designers are struggling to cut costs. Artificial DNA nanostructures, or “DNA origami” may provide a...

Microsoft is taking the unusual step of rushing out two emergency security patches ahead of its regularly scheduled updates on August 11. The patches will include a critical fix for Internet Explorer as well as a related Visual Studio patch rated “moderate” urgency by Microsoft. “The...

JAPANESE scientists have devised a wheelchair powered by thought alone. And the reaction time of an eighth of a second is almost as fast as humans can think. The discovery has the potential to set a whole generation of handicapped or elderly people into motion, says Toyota, which funded the research into...