A desktop videophone that offers real-time eye contact and broadcast quality pictures may put an end to the frustrations of videoconferences, reports Jon Excell

Editor Pfizer’s proposed takeover of AstraZeneca is worrying for the UK’s science base but, if lessons are learned from other areas of industry, doesn’t have to be disastrous

Turkish physicists use fundamental maths to solve a long-standing conundrum in the development of holographic projection

Computer scientists at MIT and the National University of Ireland at Maynooth have developed a mapping algorithm that creates detailed 3D maps of indoor and outdoor environments in real time.

Solar cells could become more efficient and cheaper to mass produce as a result of an EPSRC-funded research project at St Andrew’s University.