Morning Markets: News that WeWork’s leading investor is ready to ditch its controversial CEO is notable. Most investors leave founders alone. But when another SoftBank...
Morning Markets: News that WeWork’s leading investor is ready to ditch its controversial CEO is notable. Most investors leave founders alone. But when another SoftBank...
A catalytic reactor that uses renewable electricity to produce pure liquid fuels was developed by the chemical and biomolecular engineer Haotian Wang. This new catalyst uses carbon dioxide as a real raw material to produce...
A new nanometre-scale distance measurement system, a kind of nanometric "optical ruler," was developed by a research group at the Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore (NTU).
Currently there is a limit, called a "diffraction limit,"...
A group of researchers claims to have simulated the functioning of a quantum computer in a classical computer, a result that according to the same scientists at the University of Linköping, Sweden, who carried out...
A device that "acts as a synapse in the living brain," capable of storing and forgetting information when it is no longer used, was built by a group of researchers from the Moscow Institute of...
A new research project developed by an engineer from the University of Aarhus was funded by the European Union. In particular, the project provides for the possibility to extract 100% phosphorus from waste materials such...
Using bacteria to make 'living' liquid crystals so that they can work in a relatively autonomous way is a curious idea. For some years now, there has been a great deal of interest in these...
Water can be "easily" purified with pollen, without resorting to chemical additives or alcohol: this is the result that a team of researchers had to present their efforts to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Autumn...
A new absorbent material, defined as "intelligent" in the press release, for industrial water treatment was developed by a group of researchers from the State University of the Southern Urals.
It is a multifunctional carbon-based product...
A new ultra-thin muscle for light robotics was developed by a group of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The new actuator looks like a thin strip of paper about...
The report found housing asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset was discriminatory.Image source, PA MediaBy Charlotte Andrews & PA MediaBBC NewsA...
