Technology - general

Firms “underinvest” in long-term cancer research: study

28 Jul 2015

Pharmaceutical firms “underinvest” in long-term research to develop new cancer-fighting drugs due to the greater time and cost required to conduct such research

Sleep deprivation could reduce intrusive memories of traumatic scenes

28 Jul 2015

Plasmonic device has speed and efficiency to serve optical computers

28 Jul 2015

China building world’s largest radio telescope

25 Jul 2015

China is building the world’s biggest radio telescope, the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, which is being assembled in Guizhou Province, southwest China

Shallow fracking raises questions for water, new Stanford research shows

25 Jul 2015

New study shows how nanoparticles can clean up environmental pollutants

By By Jonathan Mingle | MIT News correspondent | 25 Jul 2015

Nanomaterials and UV light can “trap” chemicals for easy removal from soil and water

Cheap, efficient metal-based solar cells through Plasmonics

25 Jul 2015

Mosquitoes use smell to see their hosts

24 Jul 2015

Birmingham Quran manuscript dated among the oldest in the world

24 Jul 2015

Thanks to modern scientific methods, a Quran manuscript in the UK has been dated among the oldest in the world - close to the time of Prophet Muhammad, who is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632

Feeding behaviour in worms could shed light on human heart function

24 Jul 2015

Researchers find prawn solution to spread of deadly disease

22 Jul 2015

A Stanford-led study finds that freshwater prawns can serve as an effective natural solution in the battle against a potentially deadly parasitic disease that infects about 230 million people