Erase your data from an old computer or phone.

If you're disposing of old documents such as bank statements and tax forms, security experts recommend shredding the paperwork so it can't be used by  identity theft.

New Earth-like planet found.

This artist's concept depicts Kepler-62f, a planet 1.4 times the size of Earth that circles in the habitable zone of its host star.

NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered three exoplanets that may be capable of supporting life, and one of them is perhaps the most Earth-like alien world spotted to date, scientists announced (April 18/13).

Bitcoin: The world's first digital currency.

The world’s “first decentralised digital currency” promises financial salvation, but what is it and can it really deliver?

Dubai. Greece. Spain. Portugal. Italy. Cyprus. Ireland. The list of countries needing financial bailouts seems to go on and on. And that’s before you include those banks in the US, the UK and beyond that were “too big to fail”.

The Knockout mouse.

A laboratory mouse in which a gene affecting hair growth has been knocked out (left), is shown next to a normal lab mouse.

A knockout mouse is a genetically engineered mouse in which one or more genes have been turned off through a targeted mutation.