Top gear developed by MIT researchers.

US boffins test 'six degrees of separation' assertion.

Top results are not always the best.

Enough wind to cool a laptop, claim boffins.

Software giant promises to 'democratise video game development'.

Illegal downloads would fall if young people understood the law, apparently.

Players found to have lower levels of stress-hormone, cortisol.

Optical cloaking takes a step towards reality.

New technology needed to maintain current pace of development.

Robot, heal thyself.

Fracture-induced structuring 'like magic'.

Purdue researchers develop technique by adding water to aluminium/gallium alloy.

'Radical' computing chip bounces electrons around.

Stitches together thousands of images into one.

NEC and Northwestern University team unveil compression technology.

Delft University of Technology carries out calculations with quantum bits.

Scientists promise cheaper and more effective panels.

Device brings 'holy grail' of terahertz computing closer.

Simulation shows resilience even if key nodes were knocked out.

Roll up, roll up, roll up.