Technology - general
Sneak a peek through the mist to technology of the future
15 Apr 2014
Researchers have developed a tabletop display with personal screens made from a curtain of mist that allows users to move images around and push through the fog-screens and onto the display
DigitalAnts lead cyber defence war
12 Apr 2014
Researchers have developed a bio-inspired technology to detect security threats using DigitalAnts that roam a computer network looking for security breaches the same way real ants patrol a nest
New ‘switch’ could power quantum computing
By By Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office | 11 Apr 2014
A light lattice that traps atoms may help scientists build networks of quantum information transmitters
UK defence ministry develops robot mannequin to test protective suits and equipment
05 Apr 2014
The UK’s ministry of defence has unveiled a robotic mannequin that has the ability to run, sit and even mimic the movement of a soldier
Could diamonds be a computer’s best friend?
05 Apr 2014
Solar cells turned into cheap printable lasers
04 Apr 2014
Solar cells based on a perovskite material not only excel at absorbing light but also at emitting it, turning them into low-cost lasers, a team from Oxford University and Cambridge University has shown
Yale researchers reconstruct facial images locked in a viewer’s mind
By By Bill Hathaway | 29 Mar 2014
Oh, brother: plants can recognise their siblings
24 Mar 2014
Plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can recognize their siblings — other plants grown from seeds from the same mother plant
Phone record surveillance yields more personal data than claimed
20 Mar 2014
Two computer science graduate students from Stanford have found that the NSA's mass collection of phone records can yield much more information about people's private lives than the US government claims
US consortium H2USA creating infrastructure for hydrogen vehicles
20 Mar 2014
A consortium of US automakers, energy companies, government laboratories, and others is accelerating the rollout of an infrastructure for hydrogen-powered vehicles, a few months before such vehicles become available in the US for the first time
Bionic plants
19 Mar 2014
Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives.
Scientists detect first direct evidence for Big Bang theory
18 Mar 2014
The ground-breaking results have come from observations of the cosmic microwave background, a faint glow left over from the Big Bang, by the BICEP2 telescope