Their system uses simple, cheap detectors which have just a single pixel to sense light instead of the millions of pixels used in the imaging sensors of digital cameras.

Technology - Engineering

May 17, 2013 4.9 / 5 (16) 8 |

Historians are today launching an online resource that will provide a permanent and publicly accessible record of the letters of one of Elizabethan England's most remarkable figures. ...

Other Sciences - Other

Apr 29, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

(Phys.org) —Research teams from the University of Glasgow and the University of Leicester aim to explore unemployment, insecurity and vulnerability among young people during two key periods of economic instability.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —The process by which plants convert energy from the sun's rays into chemical 'fuel' has inspired a new way of generating clean, cheap, renewable hydrogen power which could solve looming problems ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 15, 2013 4.8 / 5 (16) 18 |

(Phys.org) —Scientists may be a step closer towards the development of a vaccine against a virus that is killing scores of Asian elephants, many of them in captivity.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 10, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —The humble salamander may provide evidence to support a controversial claim that North and South America were joined together much early than previously thought.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 19, 2013 2 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —Astrophysicists at the University of Glasgow are looking to the Northern and Southern Lights to expand our understanding of solar flares.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 11, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed a new method to make packaged food safer for consumers and more long-lived on the shelf by harnessing the germ-killing power of ozone.

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 11, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Scientists at the University of Glasgow together with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre and the Natural History Museum (London) have discovered the first evidence of water ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Feb 05, 2013 4.7 / 5 (15) 11 |

A Scottish researcher has unearthed seven long lost manuscripts, including correspondence between Robert Burns and his close friends, which throw significant new light on the life and work of the poet.

Other Sciences - Other

Jan 14, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—New research from the University of Glasgow suggests that lifespan is affected by the rate at which bodies grow early in life.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 12, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 3 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered the behaviour and metabolism of young trout is affected by where the egg they hatched from rested in the ovaries of their mother.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 28, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 0 |

Art Historians and scientists from the University of Glasgow have completed an international research project to trace the origins of four previously misattributed paintings.

Other Sciences - Other

Nov 23, 2012 3.6 / 5 (5) 0

(Phys.org)—Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed a practical solution to the increasing problem of space debris.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Nov 20, 2012 4.8 / 5 (10) 1 |

(Phys.org)—A mathematician at the University of Glasgow is helping to find an answer to one of the last unsolved problems in classical mechanics.

Physics - General Physics

Nov 15, 2012 4.9 / 5 (21) 2 |