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Future vehicles: Auto bodywork composite works as a battery

The problem is clear. Hybrid cars and EVs rely on batteries for power, but batteries are bulky and heavy, causing the car to use up more energy. But what if a car’s bodywork was made of a strong, lightweight material that could store and discharge electrical energy just as a conventional [...]

Sending Science Down The Phone: New Technology Will Map Research Across The World

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New mobile phone software will help epidemiologists and ecologists working in the field to analyse their data remotely and map findings across the world, without having to return to the lab, according to research published in PLoS ONE. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London, say the software will also enable [...]

Mobile app sees science go global

A mobile phone application will help professional and “citizen” scientists collect and analyse data from “in the field”, anywhere in the world.

Mars Mission Could Ease Earth’s Energy Supply Crisis

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Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars — Europe’s next robotic mission to Mars in 2016, but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018 — could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue of energy supply.
A major study by the Imperial College London, funded by the Science and [...]

Invisibility Cloak And Ultra-powerful Microscopes: New Research Field Promises Radical Advances In Optical Technologies

A new research field called transformation optics may usher in a host of radical advances including a cloak of invisibility and ultra-powerful microscopes and computers by harnessing nanotechnology and “metamaterials.”
The field, which applies mathematical principles similar to those in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, will be described in an article to be published Friday (Oct. [...]