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Google’s search for a superfast computer

Google wants ‘revolutionary new powerful quantum algorithms’ for operations including ranking search results, personal assistants, ad placement and spam filtering, says Jacob Aron

world

Hawking: Women are the greatest mystery

news

Smartphone surveillance makes spies of all citizens

It’s time to stop worshipping the false gods behind global warming

business

Online snooping set to move up a gear

world

Roaming robots set to revolutionise surgical operations from inside

Labour: Most Govt targets for broadband not met

Failures over Ireland’s broadband provision has led to the country’s roll-out lagging behind Ethiopia and could have dire economic consequences in the future, the Labour Party claimed today.

Tue, 06 Sep, 2005

Giant squid show taste for cannibalism

GIANT squid may have a taste for something other than hapless sailors: each other. The creatures, enshrined in myth as ferocious beasts that upturn boats and munch mariners, appear to indulge in cannibalism.

Thu, 28 Jul, 2005

Race row brewing as ‘black-only’ heart drug seeks licence

DOCTORS could soon be prescribing the world’s first race-specific drug amid a storm of controversy.

Thu, 09 Jun, 2005

EPO and steroids ‘regularly seized by customs’

CUSTOMS officers have intercepted 22 packages of the banned drug EPO and anabolic steroids in the last 12 months.

Thu, 12 Aug, 2004

Brain scans reveal why Coke is more popular than Pepsi

A LONG-STANDING marketing mystery - why Coke sells more than Pepsi even though it is less popular in blind taste tests - has been solved by a brain scan study, it was revealed yesterday.

Thu, 29 Jul, 2004

‘Face/Off’ transplant may become reality if surgeons get go-ahead

THE medical world inched one step closer to the realms of sci-fi surgery yesterday as a team of US surgeons claimed to be on the brink of carrying out the first face transplant.

Thu, 27 May, 2004

Radical 'remodelling' theory points to possible asthma cause

PERMANENT changes to a person's airways traced back to early childhood or even the womb may be responsible for soaring asthma rates, it was claimed yesterday.

Thu, 25 Mar, 2004

China denies New Scientist flu claim

China today denied allegations by a British magazine that it was responsible for the start of the current bird-flu epidemic, saying any such suggestion was “groundless and disrespectful to science”.

Thu, 29 Jan, 2004

Terrorists 'could make Ebola and deadly flu'

John von Radowitz

Thu, 18 Jul, 2002

US to test robot planes

A new weapon that could change the face of war is about to be tested by the US Air Force, it was reported today.

Wed, 10 Oct, 2001

Company offers celebs protection from cloning

A company in the US is offering celebrities copyright protection against fans who might want to clone them, it was disclosed today.

Thu, 23 Aug, 2001