Ideas and Projects

12/10/2015 - 12:49

"This strategy charts a course toward horizon goals while delivering near-term benefits and defining a resilient architecture that can... →

07/10/2015 - 15:35

The five finalists are: • VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR Topography and Spectroscopy) a mission to map Venus’ surface with... →

01/10/2015 - 16:24

Anthropologists have looked at fingerprints for years, because they are interested in human variation. But this research has looked at... →

27/09/2015 - 14:34

The boom auto-corrects itself 1,000 times per second to prevent interference from vibrations or sway. The concept is similar to the... →

22/09/2015 - 17:02

The initial draft is based on 484 smaller trees from previously published studies. “Many participants on the project contributed hundreds... →

14/09/2015 - 13:55

Prof Jamie Timmons, from King's College London, told the BBC News website: "There's a healthy ageing signature that's common to all our... →

09/09/2015 - 13:46

An additional benefit? As the PV strips absorb light striking a building's window, they reduce the "solar heat gain coefficient"; in other... →

04/09/2015 - 18:57

Interestingly, even when asked to write simple stories, the AI came up with unexpected results. "When we first tried the date at the movie... →

31/08/2015 - 11:08

A German and French scientist with four Americans comprising an architect, a pilot, a soil scientist and a journalist makes up the team... →

26/08/2015 - 17:44

Hawking’s proposal is an attempt to answer a problem that has tormented physicists about what happens to things when they go beyond the... →

22/08/2015 - 13:15

The brain, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, is engineered from adult human skin cells and is the most complete human brain model... →

14/08/2015 - 15:16

The idea for the project arose at a different convention about a year ago. Dafna Shahaf, a researcher at Microsoft, attended a speech by... →

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