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Smart Networks
Internet Zero is a new technology for low-powered, low-bandwidth inter-device inter-networking that is both simple and affordable. In this article, Eric Payne looks at how the technology works and its possible applications.
Cognitive Computing
Unconventional computing has been an increasingly popular area of academic study for the past 10 years, one of the most promising fields being reaction-diffusion (or chemical) computers. In this report, Eric Payne looks at the technology involved and the experiments in image processing, computational geometry and robotic navigation that are showing promising results.
Making Things
3D printing technology is threatening to take over the world, undermining conventional notions of economies of scale and eliminating the industrial manufacturing industry. Eric Payne reports on the progress of this exciting innovation.
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A Green Solution
Algae are the focus of attempts to achieve commercially-viable systems for harnessing photosynthesis for atmospheric CO2 fixation and biosynthesis of fuels.
Intelligent Ecology
Energy usage and how to manage it has become a hot topic. In this report, Eric Payne looks at the proposals to remake the current energy infrastructure as a smart grid.
The Power of Clouds
Cloud computing is the technological phenomenon that is threatening to take over the world. Eric Payne gets to grips with exactly what it is and what it has to offer businesses and consumers, as well as examining some of the contentious issues that widespread adoption raises.
Fluid Information
Given that how we use information will largely define the age we live in, thinkers and analysts are already predicting that the move to the mobile phone will have a widespread socio-economic impact on the way we do business and the way we live our lives.
Sorting out Fact from Fiction
Nutraceuticals, or functional foods, have become big business, with the promise of preventing many chronic diseases and the alleviation of various illnesses and medical complaints.
Taking control
Interacting with machines has become such an intrinsic part of our daily lives that most of us take it for granted. However, many experts believe that the User Interfaces (UIs) we use today are in fact relics of a bygone era.
Fuel of the stars
The search for an alternate energy source capable of replacing carbon producing fossil fuels is one of the most pressing issues currently facing scientists. Long held as the holy grail of sustainable energy production, nuclear fusion is now entering a new phase of development that might see it reach commercialisation sooner than previously thought.
Taking the heat
Superalloys are a generation of alloys distinguished from regular alloys by the remarkable strength properties they exhibit under extreme heat conditions.
Beyond silicon
Computers are at the centre of our lives in the modern world. They are used by consumers to carry out the most basic of tasks and are at the centre of any modern global business or research facility. Eric Payne looks at the latest exciting developments in computing hardware technology and materials and explores the future currently being glimpsed over the horizon.
The New Millennium Bug
Experts say, if something is not done soon then the internet could be facing meltdown. Eric Payne looks at the ongoing debate that will eventually decide the fate of things to come.
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Gemma Carter examines one of the most populous countries in Africa.
The Gift of the Nile
Algae are the focus of attempts to achieve commercially-viable systems for harnessing photosynthesis for atmospheric CO2 fixation and biosynthesis of fuels.
A Green Solution
In the aftermath of the failed Copenhagen environmental summit last December, the question of finding a secure, environmentally sustainable and economically viable source of energy to power the future remains unanswered. As a result, nuclear power has been thrust back into the limelight, could a nuclear future be the safest, cleanest and most cost-effective option? Laurie Cuthbert investigates