From faraway planets to the deepest depths of the ocean, 2012 has been an exciting year for scientific achievements and milestones. Humans broke previously unimaginable barriers by detecting... Read more
A $10m (£6.5m) prize is on offer to whoever can create a Star Trek-like medical “tricorder”. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize has challenged researchers to build a tool capable of... Read more
Sheikh Mansour invests $280m in Virgin Galactic Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi sheikh who owns Manchester City Football Club and made roughly £1.5bn investing in Barclays... Read more
The world’s first commercial spaceport has opened its runway in the New Mexico desert, bringing the dream of mass tourism in space a step closer. Spaceport America is the world’s... Read more