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Press Invitation: At the Cutting Edge - Technology Partnerships with PPARC
Journalists are invited to attend a showcase event on 12 February at the QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London, which demonstrates how UK companies can, and have, benefited from technology partnerships with PPARC`s academic community. Case study presentations will include:- * Airways and... view more (2002-02-01)

CultureLab-UK News
The November edition of Culture Lab is now live. Log on now to our Bond special, featuring two fascinating articles: 1. Die Another Day - Despite fierce competition from Hollywood rivals, the new Bond film remains 'The Daddy' of hi-tech film production. 2. Bond UK - Want to know what unbelievable... view more (2002-11-14)

New satellite and microwave-based systems for highway toll payment
Robotiker Telecom is collaborating with Telvent traffic, road transport and toll payment systems R+D group in the design of satellite and microwave (wireless) tele-payment at highway/motorway toll booths.   view more (2004-11-23)

EU chemical and biotech players join forces to foster sustainable and competitive chemistry
Although Europe is a world leader in chemical production, holding 28% of the world market, its proportion of global trade has dropped by 4% over the past decade. Today in Brussels chemical and biotechnology sector organisations CEFIC and EuropaBIO, with the support of the European Commission,... view more (2004-07-06)

Chalmers matematics selected, high -level internationalization
Once again, it has been shown that Mathematics at the Chalmers University of Technology is held in high repute. When the renowned German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft sought its very first partner in academic Europe, the choice was the Department of Mathematics at the Chalmers University of Technology in... view more (2001-10-29)

First large-scale evaluation of iris recognition under way
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is running the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE), the first large-scale evaluation of iris recognition.   view more (2005-08-11)

STUDY AIMS TO LEARN LESSONS IN SUPPORT FOR SMALL FIRMS
The two-year study, for which JETS has grant funding of £134,675 from the European Community, will evaluate the competitiveness of European SMEs as compared with their counterparts in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Enterprise benchmarking will be used to identify the nature of the technological... view more (1999-03-16)

CCLRC to play pivotal role in e-science
CCLRC (Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils) welcomes the government's announcement today that offers extra funding for e-science. The extra £5 million over three years awarded to CCLRC will enable it to drive the development of e-science as a key technology for the... view more (2000-11-22)

Open Systems - Mutual Understanding Without Limits
The universal open system technology has been developed by Russian researchers with support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE). The new technology will help to finally achieve mutual understanding between computers even... view more (2004-12-20)

ESA and Eurocontrol sign cooperation agreement on using space technology for civil aviation
A five-year renewable Agreement for Cooperation was signed today in Brussels by the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Antonio Rodot' , and the Director General of Eurocontrol, Victor M. Aguado. The Agreement establishes a general framework for cooperation and support between... view more (2002-07-26)

Direct online access to full texts of British Patents
A vast amount of technical knowledge is contained in patents and utility models. More than 600,000 new patent applications per year worldwide add to this huge information pool. No other source of information covers almost any technological subject area in this concentrated form. Patent files... view more (2005-03-21)

Knighthood for SSTL's Chief Executive
Professor Martin Sweeting, OBE, FRS, Chief Executive Officer of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited and director of the Surrey Space Centre, has been awarded a knighthood in The Queen's New Year's Honours for services to Microsatellite Engineering. Today Sir Martin said: `I am most surprised and... view more (2002-01-03)

UK is still not realising its potential for science & engineering
The UK Government is neither spending enough on nor devoting enough time to science and engineering, says the Royal Academy of Engineering in its submission to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee inquiry Are we realising our Potential? The inquiry is reviewing the 1993 White... view more (2000-06-27)

Cerep Announces Drug Discovery Service Contract with Solvay
Rueil-Malmaison, August 28, 2000 - Cerep SA today announced a three year drug discovery collaboration with Solvay Pharmaceuticals. Under terms of the worldwide collaboration, Solvay will use all elements of Cerep’s technology platform for optimization and selection of drug candidates. Cerep... view more (2000-08-29)

New Call for Public Awareness of Science
New Call for Public Awareness of Science The European Commission, Research Directorate General has just launched a call for proposals for Raising Public Awareness of Science and Technology. The deadline for proposals is 15 April 2002. The main objectives of Raising Public Awareness include helping... view more (2002-01-18)

Creativity and Cognition Research Studios
At a time of increasing international interest in the cross over between the arts, sciences and new technology, Loughborough University has been chosen as the home of the Creativity and Cognition Research Studios, with the aid of nearly £0.6M from Government and industry. The Studios will... view more (1999-04-14)

Microwave Treatment for Heart Disorders
Microwaving the heart may soon become a routine procedure for the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, a common cause of heart attack and stroke, reports Marina Murphy in Chemistry & Industry magazine.   view more (2004-05-14)

Major grant drives forward cost efficient solar power
Whether the search for alternative energy sources is driven by our concern about global fossil fuel supplies or over the atmospheric effects of burning of fossil fuels, the government has laid out its aim to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60% of 1990 levels by 2050, and aims to over- achieve its... view more (2004-09-14)

Cancer Cell Detection Technology Wins Kaye Award For Hebrew University Researchers
A unique technology for optoelectronic detection of the presence of cancer cells has been developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem by a team of researchers headed by Itamar Willner, Enrique Berman Professor of Solar Energy at the Institute of Chemistry. The technology detects the presence... view more (2004-06-20)

Outstanding opportunity for high achieving scientists, engineers and artists
High achieving scientists, engineers or artists looking to realise a new professional goal now have the ideal opportunity to do so thanks to a new fund worth more than half a million pounds from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), the organization that invests in UK... view more (2004-05-18)

High-quality multi-channel listening with MP3 Surround
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS presents the brand new MP3 Surround technology as a CeBIT premiere. A next generation of MP3, the MP3 Surround technology, provides a multi-channel listening experience with minimum effort and maximum compatibility. MP3 Surround allows the... view more (2004-03-12)

Bangladesh to dramatically expand technology that doubles efficiency of urea fertilizer use
The Government of Bangladesh has announced that it will expand urea deep placement (UDP)-a technology that doubles the efficiency of urea fertilizer use-to almost 1 million hectares (ha) of rice land, reaching about 1.6 million farm families, in the coming boro or dry season.   view more (2007-12-19)

New sensor provides simpler measurement of eye pressure
On Friday, May 31, Anders Eklund, Department of Radiation Sciences, Medical Technology, Ume'å University, Sweden, will defend his dissertation evaluating a new and simpler instrument for measuring the pressure of eye fluids, a key risk factor in glaucoma. Anders Eklund has a master's in... view more (2002-05-28)

Mobile phones are the new learning tools of the future
Major international research programme on Life as learning Mobile phones are the new learning tools of the future Mobile phones look set to become an important new learning tool for the future. One of the projects under the umbrella of the Academy of Finland international research programme Life... view more (2002-11-21)

Intelligent windows technology
Car rear windows, photographic camera filters, large screens, sunglasses, etc. Electrochromic materials are experiencing a huge surge in their applications. And it is the CIDETEC technology centre at Donostia-San Sebastian in the Basque Country that has just brought to a conclusion a project... view more (2004-03-05)
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