Automotive & Transport
Accelerating into the future
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has begun the testing phase of its “all-new aluminum space-frame architecture”, which it began developing in February last year.
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Electronics & Communications
Built-in grocery store unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show
South Korean technology giant Samsung unveiled an array of new technologies at the 2016 CES in Las Vegas, the most popular of which was a fridge with a built-in grocery store.
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Electronics & CommunicationsOpportunities
The Internet of Things
The UK government’s Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, Ed Vaizey, has confirmed the development of a new interdisciplinary Research Hub to push forward research on the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Manufacturing
New technology can detect suspect luggage
A new system, developed by researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), possesses 3D imaging technology that can help to assess the dangers of…
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Electronics & Communications
Everyday technology could detect an epileptic seizures
An independent game developer in the US has developed a smartwatch app that can detect certain epileptic seizures.
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Manufacturing
US breakthrough in 3D printing
Engineers from HRL laboratories in California have developed a ceramic processing technique that is being hailed as a “breakthrough” by US engineers.
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Energy & Environment
Water has potential for power
The platinum in fuel cells for cars could soon be replaced by biomaterial, according to US scientists, who have developed a biological hydrogen ‘Nano-reactor’ which can produce power from water by splitting the water molecules.
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Automotive & Transport
Victorian railways to be reunited
The former Great Central Railway (GCR), one of the last great Victorian railways, could be partially reunited.
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Electronics & CommunicationsOpportunities
Ride a robot bus
According to Whitehall, new technology could soon enable robot buses in rural areas, satellite navigation systems to help shoppers find available parking spaces and Nobel prize winners being beamed in to classrooms thanks to virtual reality sets.
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Opportunities
Engineering on the curriculum in Cambridge
A prep school in Cambridge has introduced engineering lessons for its pupils aged 7 to 13. The school’s head teacher said he believes engineering is about problem-solving and coming up…
Electronics & Communications
Leading the race to build a supercomputer
The race is on to build the world’s first practical quantum supercomputer, capable of processing data far faster than it would take today’s computers.
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HealthBreakthroughs
Smartphones to have 'diet scanner' technology
Technology which allows users to find out the sugar content in fruit or the fat in a piece of cheese could soon be widespread within a few years.
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Automotive & Transport
UK buses to be fitted with green technology
In a bid to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, the Department for Transport has set aside £7mn worth of funding to upgrade more than 400 UK buses, which will be retrofitted with green technology.
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Health
The genes that might help you make it past a century
If you carry protective variants of four recently discovered genes that: 1) determine blood group; 2) regulate cellular life cycles; 3) help the immune system to recognize the body’s own…
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Automotive & Transport
Exports drive UK car growth
November saw a 10.8% increase in the production of cars to be exported due to greater demand from abroad. Increased demand from markets overseas helped to boost monthly production.
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HealthOpportunities
Investment in centres to tackle life-threatening diseases
On Wednesday, George Freeman, the Life Sciences Minister, announced a new investment worth £10 million for five new UK-wide research centres.
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Health
Tower powered by mirrors reflection
Thousands of mirrors arrayed in circles facing the sky are lit up by the Nevada desert sunshine. The top of the 195 metre high tower which stands in the midst of the mirrors is powered by the reflected sunshine.
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Tests are to start on Elon Musk Hyperloop
The Hyperloop system will undergo its first test in Las Vegas in 2016. It is claimed that commuters may soon be able to get from London to Glasgow in 30 minutes.
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No hiding from a laser camera
A new laser camera created by a team from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh is able to detect individual photos and can follow objects moving around corners - even when obscured from view.
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Electronics & Communications
Simulation of insect brain can help scientists better understand human brain
Scientists from Columbia University in the US and Sheffield University in the UK are collaborating to simulate the first complete model of an insect brain on a computer.
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Health
Biology not chronology reveals your true age
Scientists say they have found a new way to measure how old you are biologically rather than chronologically.
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