London’s first timber skyscraper could be a step closer to reality this week after researchers presented Mayor of London Boris Johnson with conceptual plans for an 80-storey, 300m high woode... Read more
Battery tech is going to be extremely important in the future, with all of our gadgets, cars, and possibly even homes at times to be powered by batteries. Researchers at Cambridge University... Read more
In recent months, government officials in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries have made repeated calls for law-enforcement agencies to be able to access, upon due autho... Read more
Cambridge scientists raise prospect of new generation of treatments after finding technique to limit development of biggest cause of dementia Scientists have found a method which could poten... Read more
A new technique which uses light like a needle to thread long chains of particles could help bring sci-fi concepts such as cloaking devices one step closer to reality. A new method of buildi... Read more
The research demonstrates the potential of high-temperature superconductors for applications in a range of fields, including flywheels for energy storage, ‘magnetic separators’, which can be... Read more
Pioneering work using touchless technology for vascular surgery is now being extended to neurosurgery. Dr Mark Rouncefield and Dr Gerardo Gonzalez from the School of Computing and Communicat... Read more
This has great implications for improvements in solar cell efficiency Latest research finds that the trailblazing ‘perovskite’ material used in solar cells can double up as a laser, strongly... Read more
Computer security: Spam in the fridge “THE internet of things” is one of the buzziest bits of jargon around in consumer electronics. The idea is to put computers in all kinds of products—tel... Read more
A revolutionary new architecture aims to make the internet more “social” by eliminating the need to connect to servers and enabling all content to be shared more efficiently. One colleague a... Read more
New technique could one day help improve the performance of microelectronics in devices ranging from batteries to spacecraft Carbon nanotubes’ outstanding mechanical, electrical and thermal... Read more
Similar predictions could be made from all manner of digital data, with this kind of secondary ‘inference’ made with remarkable accuracy Michal Kosinski Research shows that intimate personal... Read more
If Immigration Law Doesn’t Get In The Way Six years ago, we wrote about Andy Kessler’s fascinating book, The End of Medicine, which got me to totally rethink how nearly every soc... Read more
Cambridge University spin-out Metalysis has revealed a breakthrough ‘sand to metal’ conversion process from its UK technology flagship. The company has developed a production process that ca... Read more
