How can computer science be used to help make the world a better place? It’s a lofty question, but one that drives the team…
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Photoelectric implant for treating neurological disorders
Grégoire Courtine doesn’t hesitate to use the word “revolutionary” when describing the emerging field of optogenetics – a technology that uses pulses of light…
Raspberry Pi: adding audio to enhance opportunities for its users
OKdo has added the DACBerry400 audio input/output to the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, developed in partnership with audio accessory provider OSA Electronics specifically for the…
What’s it like to be a student engineer pre and post COVID-19?
Methods of teaching, access to resources, ability to complete practical assignments and the social aspects of engineering students’ degrees all changed because of COVID-19,…
Are we in the era of quantum technologies?
ETH spin-off Zurich Instruments was recently acquired by German technology group Rohde & Schwarz. What was so significant about this deal? Vanessa Wood: Zurich…
Computer scientists working on development of quantum computers
Physicists had long nurtured the ambition to build a quantum computer. In the early 1980s, one of the most famous among them, Richard Feynman…
Henkel products help UCLAN with dynamic event at Formula Student
The use of LOCTITE and TEROSON adhesives, sealants and retaining compounds helped the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) to win the Dynamic Event at…
Northumbria’s University becomes UK’s first home of world-leading spectrometer
Academics in search of solutions to creating more energy efficient phones and television screens now have high-performance machinery at their fingertips, after Northumbria University…
The University’s Centre for Precision Technologies will receive £3 million in funding
THE University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Precision Technologies will be receiving £3 million of funding over the next five years to lead major research programmes designed…
Quantum physics helps to understand our reality
We generally assume that the objects around us exist independently of us and of other objects. We can observe a glass as a well-defined…