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First Internet-built student satellite successfully launched
SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and built by European university students under the supervision of ESA's Education Department, was successfully launched this morning at 08:52 CEST from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Russian Kosmos 3M launcher.   view more (2005-10-27)

In Unique Stellar Laboratory, Einstein's Theory Passes Strict, New Test
Taking advantage of a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense neutron stars. Essentially, the famed physicist's 93-year-old theory passed yet another test.   view more (2008-07-07)

SSETI Express sets off
SSETI Express, the first spacecraft to be designed and built by European students, has set off on the first stage of its journey into space. It left ESTEC in the Netherlands yesterday and is now on its way to Plesetsk, the Russian cosmodrome from where it will be launched on 25 August.   view more (2005-07-14)

The Lovell Telescope presents a new face to the universe
After many months of unseen work, the University of Manchester`s giant Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire is again scanning the skies with a brand new, pristine white, surface. After two summers of work, the installation and painting of the new galvanised steel surface has... view more (2002-11-04)

Mars Express radar ready to work
MARSIS, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, is now fully deployed, has undergone its first check-out and is ready to start operations around the Red Planet.   view more (2005-06-23)

Management, planning and control of municipal police patrol routes
The GPSApp project was conceived as an integral solution for the management, planning and control of the municipal police patrol routes for the Amorebieta-Etxano Town Council in Bizkaia in the Basque Country. There is currently no organised control of local beats in the municipal borough, a... view more (2003-07-07)

New Treatment Slows Bone Metastasis - Patients survive incurable disease longer
Together with US colleagues researchers from the University of Bonn have developed a new treatment which enables certain types of cancer to be treated more effectively than was previously the case. The radioactive substance becomes particularly concentrated in metastases in the bones and partially... view more (2003-08-05)

Quick and easy access to services through physical browsing
Physical browsing is a new method for providing direct access to services without the use of complicated menus or inputting long addresses; all the user needs to do is touch an object with a mobile terminal (such as a mobile phone) or point the terminal at the object. A child can call 'Granny' by... view more (2004-10-21)

European light research opens door for optical storage and computing
The goal of replacing electronics with optics for processing data in computers is coming closer through cutting edge European research into the mysterious properties of "fast and slow" light.   view more (2008-04-25)

ORNL scores hit with National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
An electronic accountability system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will result in savings of more than $2 million per year at one federal facility alone and will ensure 100 percent accountability of employees.   view more (2007-02-05)

Magnetically guided catheter zaps atrial fibrillation
A remotely-controlled catheter device guided by magnetic fields provides a safe and practical method for delivering radio frequency ablation treatment in the hearts of patients with atrial fibrillation.   view more (2006-03-31)

Naval Research Laboratory to design lunar telescope to see into the dark ages
A team of scientists and engineers led by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will study how to design a telescope on the Moon for peering into the last unexplored epoch in the Universe's history.   view more (2008-03-12)

MESSENGER flyby of Mercury
At 2:04 p.m. EST on Monday, MESSENGER skimmed 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of Mercury in the first of three flybys of the planet.   view more (2008-01-15)

Small, low-noise oscillator may help in surveillance
A new design for a microwave oscillator that is smaller, simpler, and produces clearer signals at a single frequency than comparable devices has been invented at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).   view more (2006-09-18)

ESA's XMM-Newton makes the first measurement of a dead star's magnetism
Using the superior sensitivity of ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, a team of European astronomers has made the first direct measurement of a neutron star's magnetic field. The results provide deep insights into the extreme physics of neutron stars and reveal a new mystery yet to be solved... view more (2003-06-11)

Unmanned aerial vehicles mark robotic first for British Antarctic Survey
Scientists at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany have completed the first ever series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Antarctica.   view more (2008-03-19)

New Faraday Partnership in Radio Frequency Engineering
Science Minister Lord Sainsbury has announced the funding of a new Faraday Partnership in the important field of High Power Radio Frequency (RF) engineering. With expertise in many areas of RF engineering applications (particularly in accelerator technologies), CLRC (Central Laboratory of the... view more (2001-09-24)

Brenner Children's Hospital researcher says PSA campaign about risky sexual behaviors a success
Media campaigns that remind parents to talk with their children about sex are effective, according to a pediatric researcher at Brenner Children's Hospital and Wake Forest University School of Medicine.   view more (2006-02-24)

Multi-wavelength images help astronomers study star birth, death
In recent years, a number of ground-based optical and radio surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds - Earth's nearest neighboring galaxies - have become available.   view more (2006-01-12)

Media Invite - From Research to Industry - PPARC`s North West Industry Workshop
PPARC`s North West Industry Workshop Thursday 20th June - CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington   view more (2002-06-12)

Hyper-accurate clocks - the beating heart of Galileo
Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century.   view more (2007-05-11)

First view of a newborn millisecond pulsar?
Combining Hubble Space Telescope images with radio observations has revealed a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star. The existence of the system is something of a mystery - the best explanation so far is that we have our first view of a... view more (2002-02-13)

Voracious black holes hide their appetite in dusty galaxies
A UK-led team of astronomers reports that they have tracked down an elusive population of black holes growing rapidly hidden behind clouds of dust.   view more (2005-08-08)

Safety Device To Help Protect Toddlers From Danger
PARENTS or carers who want to protect adventurous children from wandering out of sight and into potential danger can soon use a security device which has been partly developed by a group of electronic experts at Staffordshire University. Crecheguard has been produced by Planescheme Ltd, a company... view more (2002-11-04)

Presented in Stanford mAgic VLIW: a revolutionary processor at disposal of the environment intelligence
On August 18th and 19th in Stanford, California, at Hot Chips 15 conference, the most important international event on processors architecture, mAgic VLIW will be presented: it is a revolutionary electronic component derived by technologies developed by Italian National Institute for Nuclear... view more (2003-08-01)
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