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Energy & Green Tech Jan 5, 2017

Artificial intelligence seen as a key technology to enable better balancing of UK's energy market

Upside Energy and Heriot-Watt University have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant by Innovate UK to maximise the opportunities presented by the emerging energy demand response market.

Economics & Business Dec 14, 2016

Nobel-winning economist Thomas Schelling dies at 95

Thomas Schelling, an economist who won a Nobel Prize for using game theory to explain nuclear strategy, has died, a colleague said Wednesday. He was 95.

Other Dec 8, 2016

Study of human migration could help understand cancer metastasis

What could cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria possibly have in common with Stone Age settlers of the Americas? They're all migratory, and at one time or other, each finds the going a bit easier in a specific direction.

Business Dec 6, 2016

Samsung prevails over Apple in $399 mn patent appeal (Update 2)

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $399 million patent infringement penalty imposed on Samsung for copying Apple's iPhone design, in a case watched for its implications for technology innovation.

Energy & Green Tech Dec 1, 2016

UChicago startup turns renewable energy into natural gas

One of the biggest challenges to wider adoption of wind and solar power is how to store the excess energy they often produce.

Internet Nov 21, 2016

How 'right to be forgotten' puts privacy and free speech on a collision course

The age of digital technology, in which we can search and retrieve more information than we could in any previous era, has triggered a debate over whether we have too much information. Is the cure to "unpublish" things we ...

Security Nov 9, 2016

Hackers might be a pain, but we need them, expert says

Sure, they might take your credit card information, stop you from watching Netflix and figure a way to use any key fob to access your car, but don't think too poorly of hackers.

Astronomy Nov 4, 2016

Effort to image black hole, a chance to rule on Einstein

Being an astrophysicist and father of two is no easy task. Just ask Dimitrios Psaltis.

Evolution Oct 31, 2016

Re-examination suggests Paul Kammerer's scientific 'fraud' was a genuine discovery of epigenetic inheritance

Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926 after being accused of fraud in his famous experiments of "inheritance of acquired traits" with the midwife toad. A new study shows how recent advances in molecular epigenetics and ...

Environment Oct 29, 2016

Commonwealth brainstorms on climate change reversal

The Commonwealth is bringing together global experts to thrash out new ideas for not just reducing climate change but actually reversing its effects by mimicking success stories in nature.

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