The NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre (NEBC), based at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, has released the latest version of NEBC Bio-Linux, a…
Northeastern will lead the five-year VOTERS (Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors) project along with a range of government, industry, and…
Little more than a system of two energy levels could be used to control a single particle of light Modern electronics is built upon the control of electric…
A team of researchers from the University of León (UL) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) were able to carry out an inventory of vineyards in…
A powerful computing tool that allows scientists to extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex sets of raw data has been developed by…
An image-recognition system developed by European researchers can hyperlink reality. It’s true. The MOBVIS system can recognise individual buildings in a photo…
Could a concept from information technology familiar to online file sharers be exploited to reduce road congestion and even traffic accidents? That is the…
eMuCo (www.emuco.eu) is an international project with a total budget of 4.6M EUR, which is supported by the European Union under the Seventh Framework…
Ambitious work from European and Israeli researchers is making it easier to help students learn to think for themselves. This is exciting stuff for teachers. A…
As a result of this weakness it is possible to impersonate secure websites and email servers and to perform virtually undetectable phishing attacks, implying…
You wake up in a strange city with no recollection of how you got there and no information about where you are. Demonstrating nerves of steel, you calmly pick…
European researchers working in the MOBVIS project have successfully developed a system that can attach hyperlinks to real-world urban features. Users simply…
Change is coming to the IT world, says Dave Robertson, coordinator of the EU-funded OpenKnowledge research project.Just as individuals are now storing, editing…
The ‘oddly enough’ sections of newspapers regularly feature amusing stories of GPS mayhem. For instance, one lorry driver in Poland had such confidence in his…
In particular, the operator theory used to describe interactions between particles at atomic scales or smaller where quantum mechanical properties are…
Atomic-scale computing, in which computer processes are carried out in a single molecule or using a surface atomic-scale circuit, holds vast promise for the…