The only bad news for sufferers is that medications suitable for human consumption could be up to a decade away. FOR tens of thousands of Hunter residents asthma is a condit... Read more
In recent years, telepresence systems have become more common. Unfortunately, most of them are little more than a videophone on top of a motorized stick. The EU Commission’s Commun... Read more
LUIS VON AHN, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, sold one Internet start-up to Google in 2009, and is now on to another. With the new company, Duolingo, he hopes t... Read more
At altitudes of just a few hundred feet, they can peer down on enemy troops below while remaining practically invisible. What amounts to serious scientific research could, at first... Read more
Virtual engineering allowed research and development to proceed simultaneously. Together with the specialty chemicals company LANXESS, Fraunhofer researchers have engineered and bu... Read more
A new system that operates without wires or batteries Window contacts tell users if a window is open or closed. Typically, such sensors are wire-based. Scientists working with indu... Read more
“We have developed a new important tool for microscopy analysis of nanostructures.” A revolutionary tool created by scientists at the University of Sheffield has enabled rese... Read more
Prices were on average more than two-and-a-half times cheaper than the US. Drug makers could pull out of research in Britain because the Government is too focused on rewarding... Read more
The consequences are not being thought through Technology is designed to increase flying time ‘from days to months’, along with power available for weapons systems Amer... Read more
Covers such key areas as prostate cancer, schizophrenia, diabetes and Alzheimer’s Drugs giant AstraZeneca is to share 22 of... Read more
Public-private partnership proposed to develop pharmaceuticals. The early stages of drug development could be freed from the shackles of intellectual property under a proposal to b... Read more
Image via Wikipedia At the current pace of research and development, global oil will run out 90 years before replacement technologies are ready, says a new University of California... Read more
People often need to be rescued at sea because of stormy weather – exactly the kind of conditions in which it is not safe to fly. Nonetheless, fully-crewed helicopters and fixed-wi... Read more