Technology - general

Drone designed to help clean up Fukishima

15 Jan 2014

Turning up the heat on enzyme design

15 Jan 2014

3D printing set to rustle up delectable savouries

By By Vivek Dev | 14 Jan 2014

3D printers canbe used to produce gastronomical delights that would not be possible to make by conventional means

University collaborates with Affymetrix on genotyping arrays for sustainable wheat production

14 Jan 2014

Building ‘belt’ offers cheap, quick repair of earthquake damage

14 Jan 2014

Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab

13 Jan 2014

Battery development may extend range of electric cars

11 Jan 2014

A novel design for a critical part of lithium-sulphur batteries has been shown to significantly extend the technology's lifespan, bringing it closer to commercial use

3D printing poised to change consumer buying patterns in a big way

10 Jan 2014

Disordered materials hold promise for better batteries

10 Jan 2014

MIT researchers find that contrary to conventional wisdom, cathodes made of disordered lithium compounds can perform better than perfectly ordered ones.

Practice doesn’t make perfect, say psychologists

09 Jan 2014

3D-printed products fly RAF Tornado fighter jets

06 Jan 2014

The parts are being produced by BAE engineers for four squadrons of Tornado GR4 aircraft at RAF Marham in Norfolk

Indian scientists develop new, shorter-duration Basmati rice

06 Jan 2014

Making silicon devices responsive to infrared light

06 Jan 2014

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

Titanium powder used to print automotive parts in 3D

01 Jan 2014

UK firm’s 3D-printer makes chocolate in intricate shapes

31 Dec 2013

Images reflected in eyes of people photographed could be useful in forensic investigations

30 Dec 2013

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

Can we turn unwanted carbon dioxide into electricity?

27 Dec 2013

Batteries as they are meant to be seen

27 Dec 2013

Graphene can host exotic new quantum electronic states at its edges

26 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