Technology - general

Moving electrons around loops with light: A quantum device based on geometry

20 Feb 2016

Superconductivity: footballs with no resistance

20 Feb 2016

Biofuel tech straight from the farm

19 Feb 2016

Two-stage power management system boosts energy-harvesting Efficiency

18 Feb 2016

Imaging with an “optical brush”

By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 18 Feb 2016

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed a new imaging device that consists of a loose bundle of optical fibres, with no need for lenses or a protective housing

Cotton candy machines may hold key for making artificial organs

18 Feb 2016

New method reduces need for fish in experiments

18 Feb 2016

Limit to smallness spells obit for Moore’s law

16 Feb 2016

Moore’s Law predicates that computer chips will keep getting smaller at a steady rate – but now they cannot be shrunk much further before the physics fails, and new chip advances will be app-based rather than following the ‘smaller is better’ dictum

Scientists take key step toward custom-made nanoscale chemical factories

16 Feb 2016

Can’t quit smoking? Blame your Neanderthal ancestors

15 Feb 2016

Women better than men at writing computer code

15 Feb 2016

Researchers have found that computer code written by women has a higher approval rating than that written by men - but only if their gender is not identifiable, indicating that a 'glass ceiling' still exists for women

Women better than men at writing computer code

15 Feb 2016

Scientists create mini-brains to test new drugs

13 Feb 2016

While researchers have been using mini-brains to test for different types of diseases, Johns Hopkins researcher Dr Thomas Hartung is among the new wave of scientists to use mini brains to conduct neurological research

Scientists detect gravitational waves predicted by Einstein hundred years ago

12 Feb 2016

For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe, which opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos

New lens ready for its close-up

12 Feb 2016

Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein's prediction

12 Feb 2016

Ligo confirms predictions of gravitational waves

12 Feb 2016

Record for fastest data rate set

12 Feb 2016

Researchers in the UK have achieved a rate of 1.125 Tb/s as part of research on the capacity limits of optical transmission systems, designed to address the growing demand for fast data rates