The new “flexible charge pump” generator is the fourth generation of devices designed to produce electrical current by using the piezoelectric properties of…
This has little to do with ambition, according to Prof. Aard Groen. He proposes adopting a radical new approach to fresh business start-ups which will involve…
Mobile phones, personal digital assistants, Wi-Fi hotspots, web-connected mp3 players, SatNav devices, even washing machines that connect to the internet-…the…
With the help of neuroimaging and data mining techniques the researchers mapped the brain activity associated with the recognition of speech sounds and voices.
The 700 km long Talas-Fergana fault in Kyrgyzstan is similar to the San-Andreas fault in the USA and geologists believe the area is highly vulnerable to…
Within a few years, when the technology comes to market, every doctor’s surgery could have a small, inexpensive device which can test blood on the spot and…
“Innovate or die” has become the mantra of today’s fast-moving business world. However, the potential for innovation is underexploited in central and eastern…
Scientists and researchers across Europe are working in concert to build a new automotive system that fuses information from a wide variety of sources to…
Service providers could start offering satellite TV, broadband and voice services for less than €50 thanks to satellite technology innovations by European…
In a study published in the November/December 2008 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, researchers found that reduction or elimination of…
The CDF-S is one of the two regions selected as part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), an effort of the worldwide astronomical community…
“A common belief is that local native plants are the best source of seed for revegetation projects,” says Dr Linda Broadhurst from CSIRO, Australia’s national…
The instrument has been so successful that an advanced variant is under development, offering new functionality for Earth observation missions in a wide range…
Annuals and perennialsAnnual crops grow, blossom and die within one year. Perennials overwinter and grow again the following year. The life strategy of many…
Searching and querying large volumes of networked data using a new technology patented by the UPC is now a reality with DEX. The system offers high-speed…
The device can understand a set of voice commands and can be activated by means of simple verbal instructions given by the user (e.g., “take me to the…
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