Technology - general

Tiny grains of rice hold big promise for greenhouse gas reductions, bioenergy

04 Aug 2015

Boxfish shell snspires new materials for body armour, flexible electronics

03 Aug 2015

Bionic eye technology could more rapidly spot assembly line faults

03 Aug 2015

The technology combines an off-the-shelf vision sensor with programming and software, making it cost effective to manufacture and ultimately more affordable for industry

Power grid forecasting tool reduces costly errors

30 Jul 2015

Tiny grains of rice hold big promise for greenhouse gas reductions, bioenergy

29 Jul 2015

Could Computers Reach Light Speed?

28 Jul 2015

Light waves trapped on a metal's surface travel nearly as fast as light through the air and far enough to possibly be useful for ultra-fast electronic circuit interconnects

Facebook helps discover new carnivorous plant

28 Jul 2015

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