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How do we support today's Einsteins?
Is today's academic and corporate culture stifling science's risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore?   view more (2009-04-02)

Every State School in Britain given science manual
British scientist Brian J Ford has published a science manual for British schools. A copy is being sent free of charge to state schools The book was commissioned by NESTA as part of Science Year. NESTA have already given an Intel Play QX3 digital microscope to British schools, and the new manual is filled with experiments school students can try... view more... (2002-05-28)

DOE outlines research needed to improve solar energy technologies
To help achieve the Bush Administration's goal of increased use of solar and other renewable forms of energy, the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science has released a report describing the basic research needed to produce "revolutionary progress in bringing solar energy to its full potential in the energy marketplace."   view more (2005-08-15)

Revolutionary Robot Pitched At Industrial Partners
Staffordshire University has teamed up with a firm of intellectual property developers to help put a revolutionary robotic concept to commercial use.   view more (2004-09-14)

PRESS BRIEFING: Revolutionary Blood Test For Early And Accurate Diagnosis Of TB
When? Thursday 12th August, 9am (breakfast will be provided) What? The launch, by Oxford Immunotec, of the revolutionary T SPOT-TB test for the early and accurate detection and diagnosis of tuberculosis, which has recently received regulatory approval for sale across Europe. A leading panel of experts, including Professor Peter Davies (Director... view more... (2004-08-05)

STAR WARS GOES UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
STAR WARS GOES UNDER MICROSCOPE AT UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   view more (1999-07-12)

Robotic Revolution
A revolutionary new concept in robotics which would give disabled people greater independence has been developed by an expert at Staffordshire University. The Flexibot is being developed by a team led by Professor Mike Topping from the Centre for Rehabilitation Robotics. According to Mike the snake-like device can perform an array of tasks... view more... (2001-02-22)

Researching neglected fields of science
Independent scientist Brian J Ford will undertake interdisciplinary scientific research in neglected fields thanks to a £75,000 Fellowship from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), the organisation that invests in UK creativity and innovation. Brian, from Eastrea in Cambridgeshire, has an international... view more... (2004-05-10)

New Technology Reduces Earthquake Damage To Buildings
Imperial College Innovations looks to commercialise new device for improving the structural stability of buildings A novel device that may help to save lives by improving the stability of buildings and preventing structural damage during traumatic events such as earthquakes, has been developed and patented by Imperial College Innovations Limited.... view more... (2001-05-17)

DOE official cites need for major breakthroughs to cope with climate change
Meeting the world's growing energy needs while responding to global warming during the 21st Century will be one of the biggest challenges humanity has ever faced, Raymond L. Orbach, Ph.D., the U.S. Department of Energy's Under Secretary for Science, says in the latest podcast in the American Chemical Society's Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions... view more... (2008-08-27)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded with one half to John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka, for their development of methods in mass spectrometry for biomolecules, and with the other half to Kurt Wütrich, for his NMR-method to study biomolecules in solution The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002 is being shared between scientists in two important... view more... (2002-10-09)

Press Invitation: The science of stem cells - December Symposium at Imperial College
PRESS INVITATION 28 November 2000 As the British parliament prepares to debate a change in the law to allow stem cells from human embryos to be used in research, Imperial College researchers will gather at a Symposium in December to discuss the science behind stem cells, and examine their potential to provide new treatments for a host of... view more... (2000-11-29)

Scientists produce neurons from human skin
Scientists from Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine have succeeded in producing neurons in vitro using stem cells extracted from adult human skin.   view more (2007-02-23)

Yale study offers new paradigm on ecosystem ecology
Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study published today in Science.   view more (2008-02-15)

EC Funding Boost For Revolutionary Robot
Staffordshire University is leading a pan-European project worth £2.5 million to develop a revolutionary concept in robotic engineering which will give disabled people greater freedom. The Flexibot is the brainchild of Professor Mike Topping and his team which is based at the University's Centre for Rehabilitation Robotics. A world-wide... view more... (2001-06-11)

New technology opens the eyes of world experts
Leading international medical experts have visited the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) to make final preparations for transferring a revolutionary technology of diagnostic eye examination equipment to Asahikawa Medical College in Japan. Susumu Oshima and Toshio Murata from Nidek Japan (Nidek is the largest ophthalmic instrument company in... view more... (2002-04-25)

New Government Funding To Help With Revolutionary Radio Wave Research
Revolutionary work in the hi-tech world of radio waves was given a boost today with Government funding towards commercial and industrial exploitation in the field. Science Minister Lord Sainsbury announced that a specific group would be set up to exploit the benefits from research and development of high power radio-frequency engineering. Among... view more... (2001-09-24)

Federal Toxics Disclosure Law Could Help Inform Public Of Nanotechnology Risks
The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has released a first-time legal analysis that finds a key federal toxics reporting statute could be applied to production and commercialization of nanotechnology, providing the public with more information about these revolutionary - yet still potentially risky - technologies.   view more (2008-02-27)

Fresh air for asthmatics
A revolutionary device that could protect asthmatics from stifling air pollution has gone on show at the Science Museum. in London. The PUREbreathe, a plastic device containing high tech filters to be worn in the mouth, has been unveiled as one of the star exhibits in the Science of Sport exhibition, the Science Museum's latest blockbuster... view more... (2004-02-26)

£10,000 in prizes on offer to young code breakers in national competition
Mathematicians at the University of Southampton are challenging young people across the UK to try their hand at cracking codes to win cash prizes for themselves and their schools. Experts have devised a web-based competition involving a sequence of encoded messages encrypted with successively stronger ciphers. The competition will run in weekly... view more... (2002-09-24)
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