Author Archives: New Scientist - Tech

For $1 million, private firm Planetary Resources will launch a space telescope and let its backers choose its targets – or take “space selfie” snapshots    

Confronting a digital representation of the voice inside their head may help people with schizophrenia overcome their auditory hallucinations    

The British government spends billions guarding its plutonium stockpile against terrorists. The best option for getting rid of it is deep burial – but where?

Questions over safety, disposal of waste and the possibility that plants could make material suitable for weapons have slowed the spread of nuclear technology    

Fission power could fulfil our energy needs without generating any greenhouse gases, but not unless we find novel ways to use it with less risk    

Hundreds of reactors around the world are splitting heavy atoms in the process called fission – providing about 13.5 per cent of the world’s electrical energy

A new gestural vocabulary for controlling computers is at our fingertips – it will transform the way we navigate the digital world, finds MacGregor Campbell

Microsoft’s depth-sensing camera will gain unprecedented information about us while we play, allowing games to adjust their difficulty in response    

Sixty years on from Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s first successful ascent of Everest, see some of the technological innovations that made it possible    

A plan to cap total Chinese emissions could revitalise international climate talks