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Science museum displays new type of self-evolving robot
Nature have today reported that a new type of robot has been developed that can evolve with minimal human intervention. American robot experts have bred generations of robots within computers – the best robots that evolve are then built by the computer. These robots will be displayed in the... view more (2000-08-31)

New Optical Antenna Brings Massive Benefits to Wireless Networks, Household Electronics and Longer Distance Data Transfer
A new optical antenna, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick, will bring significant benefits to credit card payments, wireless networks, household electronics and longer distance data transfer. The device was developed by Professor Roger Green and Roberto Ramirez-Iniguez, in the... view more (2002-11-07)

Images send by stars
The research team of the Public University of Navarre (Basque Country), under the supervision of professor Ramon Gonzalo Garcia of the department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, is participating in a project of the European Space Agency. The final objective is the design of a camera that,... view more (2002-11-06)

Pioneering research at Loughborough University could reduce mobile phone emissions into the body by up to 85%
Loughborough University's Centre for Mobile Communications Research (CMCR) has made some major breakthroughs in its antenna technology that could enable safer communication for all. Using their work associated with GPS (Global Positioning System) technology, researchers have managed to reduce... view more (2002-06-12)

Memory in honeybees: What the right and left antenna tell the left and right brain
It is widely known that the right and left hemispheres of the brain perform different tasks. Lesions to the left hemisphere typically bring impairments in language production and comprehension, while lesions to the right hemisphere give rise to deficits in the visual-spatial perception, such as the... view more (2008-06-04)

Harvard University engineers demonstrate laser nanoantenna
Engineers and applied scientists from Harvard University have demonstrated a new photonic device with a wide range of potential commercial applications, including dramatically higher capacity for optical data storage.   view more (2006-09-07)

GPS technology aids earthquake research
Scientists' understanding of the movement of the Earth's crust is being helped by new observing facility which is taking measurements that may one day help predict earthquakes. Newcastle University's School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences has become only one of two UK centres feeding Global... view more (2002-11-08)

Chalmers first with integrated receiver for high frequency applications
As the first research group in the world, researchers at Chalmers have succeeded in combining a receiver for high frequencies with an antenna on a small chip.   view more (2007-11-29)

Designing latest-generation antennae for communications satellites
For his PhD thesis, the engineer, Jorge Teniente Vallinas, has developed a method for designing antennas used in satellites such as Hispasat. The PhD, at the Public University of Navarre, was awarded the second prize in the latest edition of the Rosina Ribalta Awards from the Epson Ibérica... view more (2004-02-17)

Cebreros marks major readiness milestone
On 9 June, a powerful new 35-metre antenna, presently undergoing acceptance testing at Cebreros, Spain, successfully picked up signals and tracked Rosetta and SMART-1. It is ESA's second deep-space ground station in its class and adds Ka-band reception capability and high pointing precision to the... view more (2005-06-27)

'Listen, two black holes are clashing!'
MiniGRAIL: first spherical gravitational wave antenna in the world   view more (2004-11-26)

Are you a midge magnet?
Entomologists have confirmed the truth behind the long-held belief that some of us are more prone to midge attacks than others. Speaking at the Royal Entomological Society's meeting Entomology 2001: "Insects and disease", to be held at the University of Aberdeen on 10-12 September 2001,... view more (2001-08-30)

RFID testbed measures multiple tags at once and rapidly assesses new antenna designs
Researchers have designed a system capable of simultaneously measuring hundreds of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and rapidly testing new RFID tag prototypes.   view more (2008-05-06)

Second Pinpoint Faraday Award for Surrey Space Centre
The Surrey Space Centre and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), have won a further Pinpoint Faraday award.   view more (2004-03-30)

One gene provides fruit fly both antenna and color vision
A team of researchers that includes biologists from Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that a gene involved in the development and function of the fruit fly antenna also gives the organism its color vision.   view more (2006-04-05)

ESA to build a deep space ground station in Cebreros (Spain)
ESA PR 45-2003. Communicating with ESA's spacecraft such as Mars Express, or SMART-1, Rosetta and Venus Express - yet to be launched - will be even easier and more effective when the new Cebreros ground station, near Avila (Spain), becomes operational in September 2005. On 22 July, in Madrid, the... view more (2003-07-18)

MAKE A LEAP OF IMAGINATION WITH 20/20 DESIGN A FUTURE!
Just launched is 2020 DESIGN A FUTURE, a brand new challenge website for 10-19 year-old designers, being run as part of Science Year*. 2020 DESIGN A FUTURE is all about forward thinking - and original design - with 24 challenges that address social and technological issues likely to be of... view more (2002-04-05)

New communications technology is looking good
High-tech is turning to high fashion as devices such as mobile phones and personal organisers are increasingly expected to look good as well as work well. Researchers at the University of York are working on technical solutions for small and increasingly mobile devices. People in today`s... view more (2002-06-17)

The Radar Search For Martian Water
Until the last few years, Mars has been regarded as a cold, arid world that lost most of its water long ago. However, recent observations by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft have provided tantalising evidence that huge amounts of water may be hidden just below the surface.... view more (2003-04-01)

High-tech yacht cruise the world's seas
Marinas and waterways around the world are graced by examples of Finnish design: the 1,800 Swan yachts built since 1966.   view more (2005-04-07)

Harvard University engineers demonstrate quantum cascade laser nanoantenna
In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine.   view more (2007-10-23)

Prototype for long wavelength array sees first light
Astronomers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have produced the first images of the sky from a prototype of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA), a revolutionary new radio telescope to be constructed in southwestern New Mexico.   view more (2007-03-30)

Multimode Magnetic Field and Position Sensor from Oxford University
Researchers at Oxford University's Physics Department have developed an extraordinarily versatile proximity sensor for the detection of objects, composed of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, ceramics, glasses and plastics. This new device could be used as a position or speed sensor in automotive... view more (2002-08-14)

First mobile phone to recycle itself goes on display at the Science Museum
Today, the first mobile phone capable of recycling itself will go on display at the Science Museum's new contemporary science wing - the Wellcome Wing. The phone, which has been developed by engineers from Brunel University with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council... view more (2000-06-27)

Top Kingston talent set to dazzle at design show
Kingston University design students have been putting the finishing touches to their final-year projects in the build-up to the 2003 Degree Show. The show will run from Tuesday 17 June to Saturday 21 June at the University's Faculty of Art, Design and Music's Knights Park campus. Now in its eighth... view more (2003-06-13)

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