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The University of Liverpool has been awarded  £3.3 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to establish state-of-the-art facilities to support the development of advanced electrochemical energy storage devices for grid scale applications.

18 July 2013 Picking up ultra-weak signals from spacecraft exploring deep in our Solar System requires cooling a detector to within a few degrees of absolute zero.

17 Jul 2013 The University of Manchester has been awarded nearly £8 million for two research projects as part of the Government's strategy to invest in key technologies.

The University of Glasgow has been awarded a share of £85m in new funding for equipment to support pioneering research to improve the efficiency of electronic and optical components.

A £4.3 million national facility is set to make the University of Leeds a world leader in robot design and construction.

Oxford University projects on robotics, advanced materials, and energy storage have received a multi-million-pound boost thanks to an £85m national investment in technologies to drive UK growth. Three areas - 'robotics and autonomous systems', 'advanced materials' and 'grid-scale energy storage' - were identified in the pre-budget statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as part of the government's 'eight great technologies', and are to receive £85m for capital equipment via EPSRC.

16 Jul 2013 A University of Manchester laser expert will this week receive one of the Royal Academy of Engineering's highest accolades - the Sir Frank Whittle medal - for his outstanding and sustaine

Posted under: Engineering , News Releases , Research , Social Science , Technology It's a wonder we still put up with passwords. We forget our highly secretive combinations, so we frequently have them reset and sent to our cellphones and alternative email addresses. We come up with clever jumbles of letters and words, only to mess up the order.

John S. Swartley has been named associate vice provost for research and executive director of the Center for Technology Transfer at the University of Pennsylvania.

Media Releases Matter and Material Materials Research Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have made thin, crystalline layers of the material LuMnO 3 that are both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic.

Just an atom thick, 200 times stronger than steel and a near-perfect conductor, graphene's future in electronics is all but certain. But to make this carbon supermaterial useful, it needs to be a semiconductor - a material that can switch between insulating and conducting states, which forms the basis for all electronics today.

WASHINGTON - As part of the new Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, or BRAIN Initiative , announced in April, President Barack Obama has asked the Presidential Commission fo

11 Jul 2013 Computer scientists from The University of Manchester will present their annual UK Schools Animation Competition Festival and Inspirational Computer Science Day tomorrow (Friday).

'Reach out and touch the future' says renowned aeronautical engineer and NASA astronaut Dr Greg Chamitoff who has been appointed the Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Sydney.

ANN ARBOR-In a pellet of glass the size of an apple seed, University of Michigan engineering researchers have packed seven devices that together could potentially provide navigation in the absence of the satellite-based Global Positioning System (GPS.

Rajeev Alur and Randall Kamien of the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded five-year, $500,000 grants from the Simons Foundation , as part of its 2013 class of Simons Investigators.

The remarkable material graphene promises a wide range of applications in future electronics that could complement or replace traditional silicon technology. Researchers of the Electronic Properties of Materials Group at the University of Vienna have now paved the way for the integration of graphene into the current silicide based technology.

Over five hundred school students aged seven to eleven, competed at Imperial yesterday for a maths quiz with a difference.

A group of Cambridge students are hoping that their game-changing design of solar car will make them the first British winners of the World Solar Challenge.

TU Vienna has managed to turn the oscillation direction of beams of light - simply by applying an electrical current to a special material.

The University of Liverpool is part of a UK project that aims to ensure that future robotic systems can be trusted by humans.

Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) is part of a new £1.2million project which aims to ensure future robotic systems can be trusted by humans.

A Centre for Power Electronics that will focus on delivering the underpinning science and engineering behind many low carbon technologies from electric vehicles to renewable energy generation and dis

The University of Washington research vessel Thomas G. Thompson is loading up for six weeks at sea.

Computer vision algorithms that enable Samsung's latest humanoid robot, Roboray, to build real-time 3D visual maps to move around more efficiently have been developed by researchers from the University of Bristol.

A search engine for finding bargains, wheelchair mounted robot arms for people with quadriplegia and an electronic portable device that allows easy matching of paint colours, are just some of the pro

Engineering graduate William Marks departs Harvard with a hat trick of achievements: a Fulbright Scholarship , which will send him trekking across northern India this fall; a Gates Cambridge Scholars

'Wi-Vi' is based on a concept similar to radar and sonar imaging. The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects.

News released yesterday about how using iron could make hydrogenation cheaper and greener is only one of many examples of collaborative research being conducted by teams that include researchers from McGill University and RIKEN, Japan's largest comprehensive research institution.

A new material that can store large amounts of energy with very little energy loss has been developed by researchers at ANU.

Jacobs School of Engineering professors Karen Christman and Gert Lanckriet are among 81 of the nation's most "creative young engineers" selected to attend this year's U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium by the National Academy of Engineering.

Graphene and related materials are ideally suited for applications in flexible electronics. Andrea Ferrari A formal collaboration between Cambridge's Graphene Centre, and the University spin-out company, Plastic Logic, has been announced.

Simulation gloves and glasses which recreate the effects of moderate impairments have been released by researchers, who say that the designers of many everyday products are frustrating millions of customers by failing to take such limitations into account.

It's an electrifying step forward for cardiac research: a new method of maturing human heart cells that simulates their natural growth environment while applying electrical pulses to mimic a fetal heart rate. The discovery, which offers cardiac researchers a fast and reliable way to create mature human cardiac patches in a range of sizes, was announced by University of Toronto researchers in the scientific.

The University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will begin funding a series of ambitious research collaborations that apply the latest discoveries in nanotechnology to create new mat

New system uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips. Researchers at MIT have proposed a new system that combines ferroelectric materials - the kind often used for data storage - with graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon known for its exceptional electronic and mechanical properties.

A new research project is aiming to develop a Star Trek-style 'multicorder' capable of quickly providing medical staff with accurate information about their patients' condition. A team of engineers, chemists and biochemists have received a grant of £3.4m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for four years of work to develop the system, which will take the form of a handheld device.

ANN ARBOR-As part of an ongoing collaboration, seven joint research teams from U-M and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have won funding for research projects that explore the potential of nanotechnology in energy and biomedical applications.

What is a nanoengineer? It's a question nearly 20 seniors, who, this June, earned the first bachelor's degree in nanoengineering offered at the University of California, San Diego, have learned to answer as they tackle the questions and expectations of their parents and potential employers.

19 June 2013 SkyLiberty, a new electronic flight bag for pilots of light aircraft, is being developed by the Belgian ESA Business Incubation Centre start-up company ESNAH.

Major grants from the National Science Foundation will spur breakthroughs in quantum engineering and artificial intelligence The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding grants to create three n

Four Imperial academics have been recognised for their contributions to science, engineering and health.

The UK needs to recruit more bright, young engineers - but what do young people really think engineering involves? Tim Minshall decided to find out.

BOSTON - 3-D printing now can be used to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand.