Hacker warned medical devices could be accessed remotely for “mass murder”. Scientists are set to treat depression and headaches by implanting electrodes into people’s brains which alter the function of brain tissue by using electroconvulsive therapy to “reboot” the mind. “The more neurologists and surgeons learn about the aptly named deep brain stimulation, the more they are convinced... 

Italian researcher Matteo Ianneo who previously discovered dozens of other interesting things on Mars, has now found something new and interesting again. This time he found a castle on Mars which can be seen as confirmation on Google Earth, planet Mars, at the following coordinates: Latitude 84°13’27.72″N Longitude 22°32’19.53″W. In a short interview, we asked Mr. Matteo... 

It turns out that the fastest known thing in the universe, light, can in fact be stopped. A German team of scientists have successfully stopped light from traveling for a whole minute. The record-breaking event could be a major breakthrough in the field of quantum memory storage. So how did scientists freeze light for a whole minute, knowing that the speed of this electromagnetic radiation is 300... 

With NASA staff sent home and the Curiosity rover dozing off on Mars, former astronaut Tom Jones tells RT how the US government shutdown will affect the space agency’s projects and deadlines. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s 55th birthday celebrations on October 1 were marred as it [NASA] sustained one of the biggest blows of all the governmental agencies due to the stalemate... 

The rover Curiosity has discovered water in fine-grained soil on the surface of Mars, NASA confirmed Thursday in a series of papers published in the journal Science. Each cubic foot of Martian soil contains about two pints of liquid water, though the molecules are bound to other minerals in the soil. Curiosity first landed on Mars in August 2012 on Gale Crater, near the equator of the planet. Its... 

Scientists have reached a breakthrough in their pursuit of a universal vaccine for flu, which includes even future deadly strains. The answer lay within the human body itself, after eluding specialists for decades. The foundations for a possible revolutionary flu vaccine were discovered as part of a UK study following the 2009 swine flu pandemic. Scientists monitored the health condition of over 300... 

An international team of zoologists has identified a new genus of rat in the Moluccan province of Indonesia that represents a unique set of characteristics. The newly found animal was discovered on the Halmahera Island in Wallacea, an Eastern Indonesian region. Researchers believe that the species locally dubbed Halmaheramys bokimekot lives only in Wallacea region which has been named after the British... 

A new report prepared by the Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) circulating in the Kremlin today states that Comet C/2012 S1 has made a number of “unexplained orbital adjustments” around the planet Mars seemingly to better align itself with the Red planets strange moon Phobos. According to this report, Comet C/2012 S1 was first discovered on 21 September 2012 by Russian amateur astronomers Vitali... 

Iran launched its first indigenous satellite Omid (Hope) (shown) into space in 2009. Deputy Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says Iran plans to send second living creature into space in the near future. Fazeli said Saturday that the living organism would be sent to space on board a liquid-fuel carrier within the next 45 days. Iran managed to successfully send a living creature into space... 

Microsoft is buying Nokia’s smartphone business and a portfolio of patents and services in an attempt to improve its position in the mobile market and compete with Apple and Google at a time when more people pursue their lives on mobile devices. The $7.2 billion deal announced late on Monday marks a major step in Microsoft’s push to transform itself from a software maker focused on operating... 

Remember scenes from horror movies where a character looks in the mirror and sees a completely unfamiliar face emerging out of it? Sometimes they see a reflection of a certain entity behind them. Where does this come from? Some explain this phenomenon by an optical illusion, others – deviations in the psyche, while others blame it on supernatural causes. Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo... 

The long awaited 3rd installment from the Galaxy Note series is set to change not only the phablet market but the smartphone market as-well. As some of us already know, Samsung Galaxy Note isn’t exactly a phone because it’s simply too big to fit in a pocket but its not that big because it would have been called a tablet. So what is it? It’s a hybrid between a phone and a tablet,... 

Asteroid Cruithne with serial number 3753 has attracted a lot of attention of scientists recently. The asteroid moves around the sun in orbit similar to that of the Earth, and is located at a more or less same distance from the Earth throughout the year, which makes it a so-called quasi-satellite of our planet. What does it mean for us? Cruithne’s diameter is five kilometers, and its weight... 

The world’s largest software maker announced on Friday that Chief Executive, Steven Ballmer, will retire in the next 12 months. Ballmer will continue as acting CEO and will lead the company until a successor is chosen by the board. Microsoft shares surged 9 percent in premarket trading on the news. “We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction,” Ballmer said in an... 

American scientists believe that the human brain can live for 200 years if it is regularly “fed” with nutrients. According to researchers, human beings may well live for two hundred years, but it requires a technology to replace old organs with artificial ones. In addition, one needs to watch closely not to let the body suffer from the lack of nutrients. It is worth saying that scientists...