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Innovate UK is to invest up to £4m in new projects that help to speed up the use of compound semiconductors.

Princeton University researchers have developed a new chip that promises to boost the performance of data centres.

Plymouth University is working with AutoNaut of Sussex on an autonomous wave-propelled boat to monitor sound levels in the ocean.

miDiagnostics aims to develop IC-based diagnostic tests which use drops of blood to detect cells, proteins, nucleic acids, and/or small molecules.

Intel has committed to invest $1.5m over the next three years in research in semiconductor materials, devices and photonics technologies at Tyndall National Institute,  the Irish ICT research institute. Intel has been investing in research at the Cork-based institute since 2009. Bernie Capraro, Research Manager, Silicon Technology at Intel Ireland, said: “The standard of work from Tyndall researchers is top-class, from ...

More than a quarter of UK adults polled in the UK Robotics Week survey believe that the biggest benefit of driverless cars will be fewer road accidents. While 20% of adults polled in research believe driverless cars would make road rage less of a problem. The research has been commissioned by the EPSRC UK-RAS Network, is being released ahead of ...

A quarter of people polled in research has been commissioned by the EPSRC UK-RAS Network believe that ball-collecting robots at tennis games will exist within the next 10 years. This one one of the quirky findings in the market research which is being released ahead of UK Robotics Week (25 June – 1 July 2016). The use of robots in ...

The Big Bang Fair is looking for companies, education institutions and show organisers to play their part in next year’s Fair, taking place at the NEC in Birmingham, 15-18 March 2017. The Big Bang UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair brings together the STEM community in a collective effort to inspire over 70,000 young people, their teachers and parents across ...

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), the free programme of study, accessible via mobile, tablet and desktop, is taking off in a big way at the University of Southampton which has just signed up its 200,000th learner. The attraction of MOOCs is that courses can be delivered to large numbers of participants in a way that allows each learner to fit ...

Let us hope that the EU referendum in June does not have implications for the funding of research in the UK’s universities and smaller technology companies. Each year UK institutions get a share of hundreds of millions euros from the many EU research programmes. This EU cash is an important, if not vital, source of R&D funding for many universities ...