Software that purports to read emotions in faces is being deployed or tested for a variety of purposes, including surveillance, hiring, clinical diagnosis, and market research. But... Read more
A breakthrough in energy storage technology could bring a new generation of flexible electronic devices to life, including solar-powered prosthetics for amputees. In a new paper pu... Read more
A Star Trek-inspired handheld device based on a silicon chip could help make rapid, sophisticated medical diagnostics more accessible to people around the world, scientists say. In... Read more
A new type of energy storage system could revolutionise energy storage and drop the charging time of electric cars from hours to seconds. In a new paper published today in the jour... Read more
A ‘self-eating’ rocket engine which could place small satellites in orbit more easily and more affordably is under development at universities in Scotland and Ukraine In a paper pu... Read more
Cost-effective optical manipulation platform suitable for mass production of electronic and light-based devices An international team of researchers has developed a new light-based... Read more
Scientists have discovered a pioneering new technique to transform ambient heat into motion in nanoscale devices – which could revolutionise future generations of data storag... Read more
Scientists have identified a compound that can kill the parasites responsible for three neglected diseases: Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness. These diseases affe... Read more
Ahead of this years’ Farnborough International Airshow, engineers and scientists at BAE Systems and the University of Glasgow have outlined their current thinking about milit... Read more
Tomorrow’s orbit today? This image shows how a large solar sail-equipped satellite could partly offset Earth’s and the Sun’s gravity with the slight but steady pressure of sunlight... Read more
Researchers from the University of Glasgow have found a way to make swallowable cameras more effective at detecting cancers of the throat and gut. In recent years, tiny sensing sys... Read more
Graphene, a carbon allotrope which is one million times thinner than paper may now be able to be produced cheaply thanks to scientists in Glasgow. Graphene was first isolated from... Read more
