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Women research ID management
Professor Liesbet van Zoonen of Loughborough University and a team of women colleagues from Dundee, Essex and Northumbria universities have received a £1.36m grant to examine taboos and desires around future technologies of ‘identity management’.
Riverside Campus opens
SAC and University of the West of Scotland (UWS) have officially launched their new £81m Riverside Campus in Ayr, a new 18,000m2 campus is situated on the Craigie Estate, next to the River Ayr and an innovative learning environment for students.
COMSOL Multiphysics
Initially of the workshop provides an overview of COMSOL Multiphysics V4.2a - capabilities, new abilities and functionality enhancements, and its new, more efficient, user interface the COMSOL Desktop.
Software to exploit multicore
Why must a programmer care for the hardware architecture when writing embedded applications for multi-core? At HiPEAC 2012, Professors Nikolaos Voros and Jürgen Becker explain how the ALMA Consortium comprising French, Greek, Netherlands and German based academic and business organisation aim to turn 'must' into 'may'.
£11.5m for aerospace & marine energy
Aerospace and marine energy are attracting more than £11.5m investment from UK government organisations, led by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). The slant for aerospace is solving high risk challenges, while the angle in marine energy is the nitty, gritty of array technologies.
Visualising slow bio processes
Pepric, a spin-off from Belgium research organisation imec, has successfully closed a €1.4m capital round. Pepric develops scanner systems for direct visualisation of magnetic labels and commercialises equipment for quantitative molecular detection and imaging to monitor biological processes evolving slowly over time.
Whisky biofuel as water loses to wind
THE UK government's review of feed in tariff (FIT) energy payments is estimated to have stalled £100m of hydropower investment in Scotland, while a newcomer Celtic Renewable is to use whisky by-products for the production of biofuels.
Dundee is Tissue Bank founder
The University of Dundee/NHS Tayside is one of four collaborating centre sites where breast cancer tissue samples can be donated, along with blood samples and information about the donor’s breast cancer in a revolutionary new central bank.
Rain forest and flight wing truths
LMU biologist, Professor Susanne Renner teamed with Professor Robert E. Ricklefs at University of Missouri in St. Louis used data to dispose of the neural theory for rainforests. At Cambridge University Professor Holger Babinsky creates a 1-minute video to show it is lower air pressure above that raises a wing, not the common but wrong explanation of wing curvature creating wing lift.
Enter online now!
Dare to be Digital, claimed as the world’s leading computer game design competition, is now open for 2012 entries – a unique opportunity for students to win industry attention and their very own BAFTA.
NISIC wipes out NBII
The USA National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is being terminated A new database, the National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC), has been added. If you wish to receive NISIC Alerts access your Alerts account and add it to your selected Alerts source
Graphene: magnetic, irridescent, & super hydrophobic
Graphene's multi-magnetic face now adds two other unusual properties with iridescence and super hydrophobicity that could have applications in liquid transportation and analysis, and due to graphene’s remarkable electrical properties, even in electricity.
Girls lock-up quantum security
Quantum computers, besides offering substantial computational speedups, are also expected to preserve the privacy of a computation.
Data Analysis: Google lure for data journalism
Last November, Google announced its support for a new Data Journalism competition, organised by the Global Editors Network. The competition is now open to submissions and a London event detailed on how to compete and win a total of six prizes worth €45,000. Hopefully even if the UK makes a poor fist at it this time, it will encourage higher teaching associations specialising in journalism to push at data analysis and social network analysis tools and skills.
Superconductors: Essen & Prague
The RWE Group and its partners are to replace a 1-km-long high-voltage cable connecting two transformer stations in the Ruhr city of Essen with a state-of-the-art superconductor solution. It marks the longest superconductor cable installation in the world.
Ocean dataset available
FIND Maps UK's advanced online mapping website for professionals, is now authorised to deliver OceanWise marine datasets. These comprise an international range of Geo referenced Raster GeoTiffs as well as OceanWise Marine Themes (GIS compatible vector data).
Genetics: 24% intelligence impact
Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course and find that genetic factors may account for about 24% of changes in intelligence between childhood and old age.
Three year memory medicine project
Memory problems, the main symptom of Alzheimer's Disease, also occur in many other neuropsychiatric disorders, as in schizophrenia or depression yet no satisfactory treatment options for memory impairment are available.
Education of the heart
The Dalai Lama will deliver this year’s Margaret Harris Lecture on Religion and talk "Education of the Heart: a new world order of compassion" during his historic visit to Dundee, Inverness, and Edinburgh after several programmes in Manchester and London.
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