Our unprecedented ability to collect, store and analyse data is opening up new frontiers in science and the humanities.
Future hearing aids could be adjusted by the wearer to remove background noise using new technology that could also be used to clean up and search...
Ambiguity in language poses the greatest challenge when it comes to training a computer to understand the written word. Now, new research aims to...
A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by...
More than 1,000 people around the world have signed up to take part in the biggest ever public study of Android phone usage.
Scientists at Strangeways Research Laboratory are leading the search for the ‘genetic cards’ that determine an individual’s risk of cancer.
Computational biology is helping scientists to navigate through the data deluge generated from the analysis of cancer genomes.