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Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) is joining other leading research institutions in a new project looking at how remotely operated robots could enable people to take part in public spaces - without actually being there.

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In applying control theory to financial markets, B. Ross Barmish advocates reacting to market performance, "rather than trying to have a crystal ball.

Spider webs actively spring towards prey thanks to electrically conductive glue spread across their surface, Oxford University scientists have discovered.

By making digital versions of real-world science experiments available to anyone on the Internet, Stanford Professor Lambertus Hesselink has developed a new approach to integrating laboratory experience with massive online science courses.

The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers. For the benefits of this new Information Age 2.0 to be fully realized, however, quantum computers will need fast and efficient multi-directional light sources.

An "antiferromagnetic" state, where the magnetic moments of electrons are opposed, can lead to a variety of unexpected arrangements of electrons in a high-temperature superconductor, then finally to the formation of "Cooper pairs" that conduct without resistance, according to a new theory. High-temperature superconductors exhibit a frustratingly varied catalog of odd behavior, such as electrons that arrange themselves into stripes or refuse to arrange themselves symmetrically around atoms.

Airmail, to your door Harvard robot researcher says technology is far closer than FAA approvals or liability solutions Internet retail giant Amazon.com hopes eventually to deliver packages by using flying robots, self-guided drones akin to those used by the military.

New system could provide detailed images - even of soft tissue - from a lightweight, portable device.

A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr.

Stanford researchers have received Bio-X funding to develop a tiny moving probe to study the mechanical properties of sensory cells in the ear. Their research could lead to new treatments for hearing loss, and the probe may advance other scientists' research as well. Much of what is known about sensory touch and hearing cells is based on indirect observation.

You have a window to the world in your pocket. Your smartphone can answer your questions, tell you where you are and how to get where you're going, help you spend your money.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Four University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faulty members have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

UCL is leading seven centres that will train the engineers and scientists of the future in a wide range of disciplines including medical imaging, materials science and heritage science.

Patchy use of electronic prescribing in NHS hospitals - and the huge diversity of systems - creates huge challenges for both patient safety and staff training, according to a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE . Of 101 hospitals in England that took part in a survey about their current use of electronic prescribing, just one has a system that is used in all clinical areas (including outpatients) with a further 12 hospitals using electronic prescribing in all adult medical and surgical wards.

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The University of Nottingham has been inspiring the region's youngsters to embark on a career in one of the world's most important professions.

A new technique that allows curved surfaces to appear flat to electromagnetic waves has been developed by scientists at Queen Mary University of London. The discovery could hail a step-change in how antennas are tailored to each platform, which could be useful to a number of industries that rely on high performance antennas for reliable and efficient wireless communications.

Particles suspended in cooling water could prevent hotspots in nuclear plant cooling systems and electronics. Cooling systems generally rely on water pumped through pipes to remove unwanted heat. Now, researchers at MIT and in Australia have found a way of enhancing heat transfer in such systems by using magnetic fields, a method that could prevent hotspots that can lead to system failures.

An Imperial spinout company that brings solar energy products to developing countries lands a major investment from a Silicon Valley financier.

To game or not to game - that is the question. Contrary to common perceptions, new research is suggesting there are definitely positive impacts associated with playing videogames.

Invisibility cloaking is no longer the stuff of science fiction: two University of Toronto researchers have demonstrated an effective invisibility cloak that is thin, scalable and adaptive to different types and sizes of objects.

8 November 2013 ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has run over 30 experiments on the International Space Station, helped to dock three spaceships, kept his cool during two spacewalks and entertained us with his blogs and pictures of Earth from above - and now it is time for him to come home.

University of Washington Leslie Rosenberg and his colleagues are about to go hunting. Their quarry: A theorized-but-never-seen elementary particle called an axion. The search will be conducted with a recently retooled, extremely sensitive detector that is currently in a testing and shakeout phase at the University of Washington's Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics.

An interdisciplinary team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has already developed a technique for controlling liquid crystals by means of physical templates and elastic energy, rather than the electromagnetic fields that manipulate them in televisions and computer monitors. They envision using this technique to direct the assembly of other materials, such as nanoparticles.

Mechanisms behind water bugs and lilies applied to culinary devices. An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties inspired by nature.

UAlberta engineering researchers use deliberate flaw to develop new adhesives that work like the wall-crawler's superpower.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. High-speed communication just got a turbo boost, thanks to a new laser technology developed at the University of Illinois that transmits error-free data over fiber optic networks at a blazing fast 40 gigabits per second - the fastest in the United States.

Two prototypes - a detection device which users lasers to fight fraud, and a piano which demonstrates the potential of printed electronics - have been unveiled by Cambridge researchers. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are sold fake pharmaceuticals under the mistaken belief that they will help them.

So long, kilowatt-hours lost. Hello, energy found.

The University of Sheffield is leading the way to help inspire engineers of the future in order to tackle the skills shortage highlighted in the Perkins Review published today (4 November 2013).

The England football squad’s record in penalty shoot-outs has left a lot to be desired in recent years.

Engineering professor developed non-invasive technology used by Minnesota startup company MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/30/2013) —The University of Minnesota has finalized a second license

Scientists at The University of Queensland (UQ) have discovered how the honeybee can land anywhere with utmost precision and grace - and the knowledge may soon help build incredible robot aircraft.

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Quantum dots are nano-sized semiconductor particles whose emission color can be tuned by simply changing their dimensions. "QD-LEDs can potentially provide many advantages over standard lighting technologies, such as incandescent bulbs, especially in the areas of efficiency, operating lifetime and the color quality of the emitted light," said Victor Klimov of Los Alamos.

A research collaboration between the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles has been awarded $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to enable smartphones, se

Inspired by how dolphins hunt with bubble nets, engineers at UCL, the University of Southampton and Cobham Technical Services, have developed a new kind of radar that can detect hidden surveillance equipment and explosives. The twin inverted pulse radar (TWIPR) is able to distinguish true 'targets', such as certain types of electronic circuits that may be used in explosive or espionage devices, from 'clutter' (other metallic items like pipes, drinks cans, nails for example) that may be mistaken for a genuine target by traditional radar and metal detectors.

MIT team documents a never-before-seen coupling of photons with electrons on the surface of an exotic crystal. Researchers at MIT have succeeded in producing and measuring a coupling of photons and electrons on the surface of an unusual type of material called a topological insulator. This type of coupling had been predicted by theorists, but never observed.

With multiple joints, a Baxter robot can move more flexibly than a human, but it would be hard for a human to decide how best to use those arms, so the robot is programmed to plan its own movements, then allow humans to make corrections.

Researchers have finally worked out where the noise that makes kettles whistle actually comes from - a problem which has puzzled  scientists for more than 100 years. Once we know where the whistle is coming from, and what's making it happen, we can potentially get rid of it Ross Henrywood It may come as a surprise to some, but in all the years that people have been brewing tea, no-one has ever quite been able to work out why kettles whistle.

A new trans-Atlantic collaboration, 'Clean Water for All', will bring leading water engineers from the United States and the UK together to tackle problems of providing clean, sustainable water supplies.

Active camouflage has taken a step forward at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), with a new coating that intrinsically conceals its own temperature to thermal cameras.

New tool helps identify astronauts with better spatial skills. On Oct. 30, 2007, astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery set out on a routine mission: installing two solar panels on the truss, or backbone, of the International Space Station. While the first panel deployed successfully, astronauts noticed a two-foot-wide tear in the second panel.

Graphene may command the lion's share of attention but it is not the only material generating buzz in the electronics world. Vanadium dioxide is one of the few known materials that acts like an insulator at low temperatures but like a metal at warmer temperatures starting around 67 degrees Celsius. This temperature-driven metal-insulator transition, the origin of which is still intensely debated, in principle can be induced by the application of an external electric field.