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Holst Centre Achieves Breakthrough in Organic RFID Technology

At yesterday’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, Holst Centre – founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research…

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Switzerland and US Supercomputing Centers Collaborate on Projects

Under the agreement, the organisations will exchange staff for work on specific projects of mutual interest with the goal of sharing and furthering the…

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Unleash Your Inner Conductor with Innovative Music Tech

The traditional method of teaching music is based on verbal feedback from the teacher and relatively short teacher-pupil contact. New technologies provide…

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New Software Connects EU Research Networks for Collaboration

Major research network grids across the EU are often developed independently from each other, using different types of software and hardware, making it…

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CMOS Chip Enables 2-D Through-the-Walls Radar Imaging

Two researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have created a send/receive chip that functions as an active array, sending out a matrix of 49…

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GPS Innovation Enhances Tracking of Peripheral Artery Disease

A Global Positioning System (GPS) uses a constellation of at least 24 medium earth orbit satellites that transmit precise microwave signals. This enables a GPS…

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Exploring 3D Learning: Innovation in Education Today

Learning by doing, or by ‘enaction’, started at the dawn of humanity itself, from the time the first proto-human discovered that a bone could become a tool….

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Music lovers get the ‘meta’ of digital audio

While researchers started the software design seven years ago, it is only now that the music world is beginning to meet the conditions for exploiting what…

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Enhancing Processor Design with Innovative Mathematical Methods

Microchip design is a tricky business. First, there is a question of functionality. Engineers describe, in minute detail, what a particular microchip must do,…

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Newcastle scientists develop ‘future proof’ computer systems

With today’s computer systems complex and often susceptible to malicious attacks, it is becoming increasingly important to build-in resilience from the outset,…

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Virtual Human Model Enhances HIV Drug Simulation Accuracy

The study, published online today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ran a large number of simulations to predict how strongly the drug…

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Grids for Kids: Introducing Grid Computing to Young Minds

“Grids for Kids gives children a crash course in grid computing,” explains co-organiser Anna Cook of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project. “We introduce…

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Discover RapidiTTy: TTE Systems’ Latest Patented Innovation

The new patented technology invented by the researchers has led to the development of a new product family called “RapidiTTy”. A company – TTE Systems Ltd -…

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European Research Infrastructure: Funding and Future Plans

At the end of 2007 the project received a grant from the European Commission towards a total budget of 20 Mio € for the coming two years. Thomas Rachel,…

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Essential IT Tools for SMEs to Stay Competitive

To remain competitive in an increasingly global market, businesses need to be more dynamic. Large organisations have long used IT tools, such as enterprise…

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Feel Virtual Textiles: Explore Haptic Technology Innovations

A revolutionary new interface allows users to really feel virtual textiles. The system combines a specially designed glove, a sophisticated computer model and…

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