Business says 'yes' to Engineering and Technology Board
An overwhelming response from business and industry to engage fully in the creation of the new Engineering and Technology Board was proof of the urgent and strong demand for change across the engineering and technology sector, Dr Robert Hawley, Chairman of the Engineering Council in the UK, told the UK section of the US-based IEEE (Institute of... view more... (2001-03-14)
Alstom And Rolls-Royce Sign Long-term Technology Agreement
ALSTOM and Rolls-Royce announced today (13 February 2002) that they have signed a long-term technology agreement which will enable ALSTOM to use Rolls-Royce aero engine technology in the development of its heavy duty gas turbine product range. This agreement is in line with ALSTOM's long-term strategy to offer a highly-competitive heavy duty gas... view more... (2002-02-13)
£350K Boost for University`s Diamond Technology
Heart operations could soon be safer - thanks to new diamond-like coating technology in development at the University of Ulster. A research team headed by Professor Jim McLaughlin, Dr Paul Maguire and Dr Stephen Morley of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University have been awarded a £350,000 grant for research... view more... (2002-02-20)
June Issue
Lasform - building aircraft parts from powder A new process for producing high-tech titanium components for the aerospace industry, using laser forming technology and powdered titanium, could help to reduce production costs for prototype parts. p.328 view more (1999-06-01)
Government's Direct Funding of Research May Threaten Academic Freedom
The Cambridge University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology project involves direct Government funding, and therefore direction of academic research for the first time in the UK. Dr Gillian Evans, Public Policy Secretary, Council for Academic Freedom and Standards, argues that this represents a direct threat to academic freedom in an article... view more... (2000-04-10)
Devgen and Monsanto announce collaboration to discover new insect control methods
Today, Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and Devgen N.V. announced a research and development collaboration to develop varieties of crop plants with improved resistance against insect pests. view more (2004-09-14)
GeneBalls: barcoding DNA
Millions of genetic tests using just one drop of blood. view more (2004-09-10)
Progress report on Homogeneous Assay project
International medical diagnostics company Panbio Limited today announced that it has achieved some encouraging results in the development of its Homogeneous Assay Technology. view more (2006-07-24)
Breakthrough for the computer of tomorrow?
For the first time a material now exists that is not only a semiconductor but also exhibits exploitable magnetic properties at room temperature. Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, have taken the lead in an international race to find the technology of tomorrow. Today's computers process information using... view more... (2003-09-25)
Lule'å University of Technology technique helps salvage DC3 shot down in 1950s
Technology developed by Susanne Rostmark, a doctoral student at Lule'å University of Technology, will be used in salvaging a Swedish DC3 that was shot down and crashed in the Baltic Sea in the 1950s. The technology involves freezing the floor sediment and then lifting chunk after chunk to the surface. In this way it will be possible to bring... view more... (2004-02-25)
Energy subsidy is not always favourable
Dutch research has revealed that energy subsidies can delay the dissemination of new energy-saving technologies. Furthermore, companies do not always want to get rid of the old technology straightaway and therefore new ideas are confined to the top shelf for longer. Ph.D. student Peter Mulder demonstrated that subsidies for investments in... view more... (2003-11-11)
A round home robot aids the elderly
Rollo, the home robot, has been developed by the Laboratories of Automation Technology, Information and Computer Systems in Automation and Control Engineering of the Helsinki University of Technology for seven years and is presently being adapted for home care and independent living at home. Rollo is part of the "Turning Well-Being Technology... view more... (2002-05-03)
SFI announces EUR43.4 million in awards to researchers
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has announced awards of EUR43.4 million in its most recent round of funding approvals. The awards have been allocated to 45 Investigators and their teams. These researchers will be based in universities and institutes of technology in Ireland. They all work in the research fields underpinning biotechnology and... view more... (2003-02-25)
Quatratran - Helping to make The World a safer place
Since the development of superconducting electronic devices there has been a need to develop a three terminal transistor like device sensitive enough to measure small voltage and current signals typical of those associated with single electron and photon events. A group of researchers in the Department of Particle & Nuclear Physics at Oxford... view more... (2004-02-19)
Too little scope for development in today's aircraft technology
New technology can do much to improve certain aspects of aviation in terms of sustainable development over the next fifty years, but this will be nowhere near enough to compensate for the expected growth in air travel. view more (2007-06-27)
Space technology helps win race at Estoril
Pescarolo Sport won Sunday's race at Estoril in Portugal, the first in the 7-event FIA Sportscar Championship, helped by technology originally designed for ESA's space programme. The partnership between Pescarolo Sport and ESA's Technology Transfer Programme (TTP) began in December last year. Its aim: to apply space technology in the field of... view more... (2003-04-16)
UK research leads to world-leading drug delivery technology
There is an unmet need to deliver drugs specifically to the colon (large intestine) in a reliable and controlled way. This new technology involves a drug coating consisting of ethycellulose and amylose, which is only digested by microbial amylase enzymes which are present in the colon. Drugs which are coated with this mixture can thus be taken... view more... (1998-08-06)
ThruVision secures £0.75m investment to develop compact security imaging technology
ThruVision Ltd, a new spinout company from the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK, secures £0.75 million investment from Circus Capital and Rainbow Seed Fund to accelerate development of its terahertz imager products. With this boost in funding a technology that will allow security operators the 'X-ray vision'... view more... (2004-06-16)
A greener way to power cars
Cardiff University researchers are exploring how waste heat from car exhausts could provide a new greener power supply for vehicles. view more (2008-02-20)
AGU Journal European Highlights - 29 April 2003
American Geophysical Union AGU Journal European Highlights - 29 April 2003 ********** Note: A formatted version of the complete Highlights may be read at http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/jh042903.html ********** view more (2003-04-29)
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