Technology - general
Genome of 700,000-year-old horse sequenced
01 Jul 2013
High-speed internet from the ceiling lamps
29 Jun 2013
A new technolgy makes it possible to use standard off-the-shelf LED room lights for data transmission, with data throughput with data throughput rates of up to 3 Gbit/s being reached in laboratory experiments
Making computers from a pencil trace
29 Jun 2013
Making computers from a pencil trace
29 Jun 2013
Large-scale quantum chip validated
28 Jun 2013
SLAC X-rays brings alive lost 200-year-old aria
By By Thomas Sumner | 27 Jun 2013
A 200-year-old opera by composer Luigi Cherubini can now be heard in full for the first time in centuries, after scientists blasted X-rays at the damaged musical score to peek at the musical notes hidden beneath a layer of smudgy black
4,000-year old Egyptian statue in UK museum rotates by itself
27 Jun 2013
An ancient Egyptian statue has left staff at Manchester Museum puzzled after it started slowly rotating inside its glass case
Getting the carbon out of power plant emissions
26 Jun 2013
Getting the carbon out of power plant emissions
26 Jun 2013
New way to improve antibiotic production
26 Jun 2013
Measuring in the extreme
26 Jun 2013
A microscopic atom cloud that is colder than outer space could help improve our ability to make precision measurements for the development of next-generation rotational sensors and GPS.
Plants use maths to regulate food reserves
26 Jun 2013
New scheme for quantum computing
25 Jun 2013
Managing ‘internal clocks’ of post-harvest vegetables for health
24 Jun 2013
Vegetables and fruits don’t die the moment they are harvested; they respond to their environment for days, light can be used to coax them to make more cancer-fighting antioxidants at certain times of day