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Biotechnology Apr 26, 2016

Scientists provide new insights into gene regulation

A team of researchers led by the University of Leicester has shed new light on how the regulation machinery that controls gene expression works by characterising a complex known as the NuRD complex.

Social Sciences Mar 28, 2016

Scholar explores changing gestures of digital age

When we sit down to write, for the most part we now do it on a computer. Of course, that was not always the case.

Hi Tech & Innovation Mar 7, 2016

Who (or what) is behind the wheel? The regulatory challenges of driverless cars

A legal opinion by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) set the internet alight in February.

Nanomaterials Feb 29, 2016

Stretchable electronics that quadruple in length

EPFL researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length. They could be used in artificial skin, connected clothing and on-body sensors.

Electronics & Semiconductors Feb 8, 2016

Wirelessly supplying power to brain

Human and animal movements generate slight neural signals from their brain cells. These signals obtained using a neural interface are essential for realizing brain-machine interfaces (BMI). Such neural recording systems using ...

Engineering Jan 6, 2016

Harnessing the energy of small bending motions

For many applications such as biomedical, mechanical, or environmental monitoring devices, harnessing the energy of small motions could provide a small but virtually unlimited power supply. While a number of approaches have ...

Engineering Dec 28, 2015

Glove interface device powered by converting the user's biomechanical energy

Controlling machines remotely by simple hand movements will be possible thanks to Goldfinger, an innovative prototype of human-machine interface designed and built in collaboration between the Politecnico di Torino and the ...

Hi Tech & Innovation Nov 27, 2015

Heads up: Cambridge holographic technology adopted by Jaguar Land Rover

A 'head-up' display for passenger vehicles developed at Cambridge, the first to incorporate holographic techniques, has been incorporated into Jaguar Land Rover vehicles.

Nanophysics Aug 12, 2015

Flexible, biodegradable device can generate power from touch

Long-standing concerns about portable electronics include the devices' short battery life and their contribution to e-waste. One group of scientists is now working on a way to address both of these seeming unrelated issues ...

Computer Sciences Jul 17, 2015

How artificial intelligence is changing economic theory

A century of economic theory assumed that, given their available options, humans would always make rational decisions. Economists even had a name for this construct: homo economicus, the economic man.

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