New Civil Engineer: Vibrations from the Forth Bridge and Queensferry Crossing could be harvested for energy under proposals put forward by academics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Heriot-Watt has teamed up…
IT Pro: Last autumn, following a difficult six months of redundancies and furloughs that hit the arts and culture sector particularly hard, a governmental campaign encouraging people to retrain to work in the tech industry was met with heavy criticism from…
Wired UK: Your body is a data goldmine. From the way you look to how you think and feel, firms working in the burgeoning biometrics industry are developing new and alarming ways to track everything we do. And, in many cases,…
Yale Environment 360: The threat was invisible to the eye: tons of methane billowing skyward, blown out by natural gas pipelines snaking across Siberia. In the past, those plumes of potent greenhouse gas released by Russian petroleum operations last year might have…
Physics World: Imagine the sound of a ticking clock. How much time passes between each tick? For a good clock, the answer should be one second, to some precision. If we want to make the clock more precise, the laws of…
