Power grid operators now have the ability to train like pilots, with simulators providing faulty readings designed to throw them off. Such misleading data and resulting loss of "situational awareness" was identified as a ...
Software
Jun 22, 2006
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In the ongoing search for better ways to target anticancer drugs to kill tumors without making people sick, researchers find that nanoparticles called buckyballs might be used to significantly boost the payload of drugs carried ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 22, 2006
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Learning to communicate and adapting our behaviour to the information we receive has been fundamental to human evolution. If machines could do the same the intelligent talking robots of science fiction could become the stuff ...
Robotics
Jun 22, 2006
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The Periodic Table of elements is the basis of chemistry. Yet, it is known that the behaviour of the elements – and their chemical properties – change significantly under pressure.
Condensed Matter
Jun 22, 2006
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Magnetic fields created using nanotechnology could make computers up to 500 times more powerful if new research is successful.
Nanophysics
Jun 22, 2006
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The University of Leicester is the co-ordinating partner in an international project involving information that can be stored on nano-particles.
Nanomaterials
Jun 22, 2006
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Gold has always been perceived as a precious material: you win a gold medal when you prove to be the best in a competition; you only get a Gold credit card when you are a preferential customer, and the jewelry made of this ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 22, 2006
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A Northumbria University student has designed an environmentally-friendly children’s shoe that adapts to a child’s differing needs in footwear.
Other
Jun 22, 2006
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New research, which has been published in Nature, has uncovered evidence of fish behaviour more commonly associated with humans.
Jun 22, 2006
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Six European mobile operators have joined forces to ensure that introducing fourth-generation cell phones will not cost as much as 3G's $184 billion rollout.
Telecom
Jun 22, 2006
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