Researchers have been able to tune ‘coherence’ in organic nanostructures due to the surprise discovery of wavelike electrons in organic materials, revealing the key to generating “long-lived... Read more
UK company Pro-Teq has developed a new water-resistant, spray-on coating that absorbs UV light during the day and releases it at night, adapting to the lighting conditions in its surrounding... Read more
Latest research paves way for inexpensive, high performance cells Organic solar cells, a new class of solar cell that mimics the natural process of plant photosynthesis, could revolutionise... Read more
British scientists say they have developed a new type of wheat which could increase productivity by 30%. The Cambridge-based National Institute of Agricultural Botany has combined an ancient... Read more
Pressure-sensing floor adds new dimension to the smart home Unlike traditional solutions based on cameras, GravitySpace reconstructs scene data from a pressure-sensing floor. While the floor... Read more
Archives could last for thousands of years when stored in DNA instead of magnetic tapes and hard drives LIKE all the best ideas, this one was born in a pub. Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney of t... Read more
“With so much at stake, we need to do a better job of understanding the risks of potentially catastrophic technologies.” A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have c... Read more
People underestimate how rapidly technology moves on In April of this year I wrote about how quantum cryptography (more properly called Quantum Key Distribution or QKD) was leaving th... Read more
This discovery opens the door to a great deal of applications Controlling and modifying at will the transparency, electrical properties, and stiffness of a gel – such are the promises of a n... Read more
Bacterial medicine is starting to emerge ONE of the crucial transitions of modern health care was from herbal to chemical medicine. Doctors had known for millennia that willow bark and poppy... Read more
“We are excited about our results and we are optimistic that we will successfully assemble a sunlight-driven water splitting system soon.” Scientists at the University of Cambridge have prod... Read more
A hand-held laser device which can remove toner from paper We reported earlier this week on new toner technology from Toshiba which makes it possible to reuse a sheet of paper up to five tim... Read more