Technology - general
New research will allow more reliable dating of major past events
06 Jan 2014
Academics have developed a new method which will allow key past events to be dated more accurately.
Researchers aim to produce device to translate dog’s thoughts into plain English
04 Jan 2014
A group of Scandinavian researchers is attempting to develop a gadget capable of translating what a dog was thinking into plain English
New system uses low-power Wi-Fi signal to track moving humans — even behind walls
By By Helen Knight, MIT News correspondent | 02 Jan 2014
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects. Now we could all have X-ray vision, thanks to researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Novel membrane for climate protection and medicine technology
30 Dec 2013
Polymer scientists develop a membrane for separating and enriching gas, which could have applications in heart-lung machines and in more efficient gas filters
Batteries as they are meant to be seen
27 Dec 2013
New research in non-toxic flame retardants
26 Dec 2013
New data compression method reduces big-data bottleneck
By By Matthew Chin | 24 Dec 2013
Researchers have developed a new data compression method that outperforms existing techniques