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Researchers have created a tool to monitor the accessibility of Web pages around the world that can be installed by adding a single line of code to a web page. The tool, Encore, runs when a user visits a website where the code is installed and then discreetly collects data from potentially censored sites. The

The world is a big place, but it’s gotten smaller with the advent of technologies that put people from across the globe in the palm of one’s hand. And as the world has shrunk, it has also demanded that things happen ever faster – including the time it takes to charge an electronic device. A

Program to develop fast, lightweight autonomous air vehicle completes first flight data tests They may not have zoomed flawlessly around obstacles like the Millennium Falcon did as it careened through the hull of a crashed Star Destroyer in Star Wars VII. But the sensor-loaded quadcopters that recently got tested in a cluttered hangar in Massachusetts

Spanish researchers have designed what they believe to be a new type of magnetic cloak, which shields objects from external magnetic fields, while at the same time preventing any magnetic internal fields from leaking outside, making the cloak undetectable. The development of such a device, described as an ‘antimagnet’, could offer many beneficial applications, such

A batch of single-cell protein has been produced by using electricity and carbon dioxide in a joint study by the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Protein produced in this way can be further developed for use as food and animal feed. The method releases food production from restrictions

IN AN ERA DEFINED BY INSTABILITY, SOCIETY MUST REMAIN IMMINENTLY FLEXIBLE AND TURN DISRUPTION INTO A FORCE FOR GOOD Joshua Cooper Ramo, managing director of Kissinger Associates, believes that we live in a “revolutionary age” defined by problems whose complexity, unpredictability, and interconnectedness increasingly defy our efforts at control. Global threats such as terrorism, pandemics, financial meltdown,

Experts have managed to mimic the colour of the Cyphochilus beetle’s scales one of the brightest whites in nature Findings show the colour is created by the structure of the beetles’ scales, not by pigments and dyes By managing to replicate this structure in the lab using plastic, researchers hope to pave the way for sustainable, ultra-white

Allergy-free eggs for use in food consumption and the production of common vaccines The days of nervous parents being concerned about their anaphylactic children consuming egg-white may soon be over, thanks to some ground-breaking research being undertaken by Deakin University in collaboration with CSIRO in Geelong and the Poultry Co-operative Research Centre. The research aims

Isn’t it time for all of professional sports to embrace available technology   If you are watching the Super Bowl on your couch today you are in a better position to referee the action than the officials on the field in Indianapolis. Just consider the technology you have at your disposal: 40 cameras to track

Washington State University researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly, plant-based material that for the first time works better than Styrofoam for insulation. The foam is mostly made from nanocrystals of cellulose, the most abundant plant material on earth. The researchers also developed an environmentally friendly and simple manufacturing process to make the foam, using water as