Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Driverless Mercedes debuts in Frankfurt (2:12)



Sept. 11 - Daimler has unveiled its much anticipated self-driving Mercedes Benz at the Frankfurt International car show. The luxury auto-maker is making incremental improvements to its autonomous technology and plans to have a fully-autonomous vehicle available to consumers by 2020. Rob Muir reports

Is this the end of the paper bank note? (1:45)



Sept 11 - The Bank of England is moving closer to ditching paper pounds and following Australia and Canada into switching to plastic banknotes instead. But as Hayley Platt reports it will be the public that gets the casting vote

Lab grown brain to open doors for disease research (2:17)



Sept. 11 - Scientists have grown human brain tissue from stem cells in a laboratory in Vienna. The researchers say they can replicate the organ's development in its early stages of life in the womb, potentially increasing our understanding of neurological and mental disorders. Jim Drury reports.