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Multisensor System Enhances Airport Security Against Threats

Such devices include various sensor and detection systems playing a leading role. At present, modern airports implement luggage control that is usually…

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Empowering Youth: Navigating Tech in Classrooms and Homes

They will help 11-14-year-old children to take advantage of the very latest in hand-held computer technology — both in the classroom and at home.The project…

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Oracle Rewards Young Talent in JA-YE’s European Challenge

The competition for the best business website is part of JA-YE’s European Challenge; a series of technology-based learning activities to teach students…

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London Launches Space-Based Help for Asthma Sufferers

The airTEXT service officially kicked off at London’s City Hall yesterday with the Deputy Mayor of London Nicky Gavron addressing the event: “There’s more than…

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Electronics engineer predicts fantastic plastic future

Professor Aimin Song from the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) is one of only eight people to receive a 2007 Brian Mercer Feasibility…

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Aptia Solutions spun out from University of Nottingham

Aptia Solutions, a new spin-out company, will bring the very latest cutting and packing research technologies to the marketplace. The company has developed…

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Small GEO Platform Contract Signed for New Satellite Initiative

This contract covers the first part of the Small Geostationary Satellite initiative aimed at the definition of a general-purpose small geostationary satellite…

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ESA open-source software supports Germany's TerraSAR-X

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is on track to launch TerraSAR-X, an Earth observation mission using synthetic aperture radar in the next few weeks, and is…

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Iowa State Unveils World’s Most Realistic VR Room

That virtual battlespace will be just one of the applications you could experience when Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center unveils its…

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Hertfordshire’s WeLearn: Innovating Interactive Learning Experience

The Hertfordshire team’s application entitled ‘WeLearn’ has reached the finals of the Microsoft UK Imagine Cup – Software Development Challenge which will be…

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Reflecting on 50 Years of Computing Innovation in the UK

Computing was very much in its infancy. Manchester University made the first, Cambridge built one too – but a huge Government investment in 1957 kick-started…

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We can have 'win-win' on security vs. privacy

One of the issues that Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance – challenges of technological change looks at is how we can buy ordinary goods and services without…

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UC San Diego Supercomputer Simulations May Pinpoint Causes of Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s Diseases

A study published in this week’s Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Journal offers – for the first time – a model for the complex process of…

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New Partnership Enhances Information Systems for UK Research

The agreement will strengthen cooperation and ensure that the research community has access to improved services, such as increased network bandwidth. The move…

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Telemedicine Initiative to Boost Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Three activities are proposed: one focussing on the health workforce (scaling-up numbers, improving performance, increasing quality); a second on clinical…

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Software pinpoints traffic accident 'hotspots'

The software is publicly available and can be adapted for use by any state, said Christopher Holloman, associate director of the Statistical Consulting Service…

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