NASA has reported that one of the gyroscopes on the Hubble Space Telescope has become unusable, forcing it to temporarily suspend operations. As a result, the Hubble Space Telescope has only two ...

Ocean waves are a vast and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing their power efficiently has long frustrated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of Chinese scientists has reportedly developed a new fibre-optic gyroscope that is stable across a wide range of ...

If you own a smartphone, chances are it has a gyroscope – and chances also are that gyroscope can be used (without special permissions) as a microphone to listen in on your private conversations. This ...

In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device's microphone. But researchers have found there's another, ...

The electronics inside consumer gadgets are often miniaturized versions of bigger components – like phone cameras, for instance – and that applies to the gyroscopes used to help a device orientate ...