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Solar Wind Sherpas to Use 14 Specially Adapted Cameras to Study Sun's Atmosphere During the Eclipse

Scientists from Aberystwyth University will be heading to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard later this week to study the total eclipse of the sun on Friday 20 March.

13 Mar 2015

Deepest Total Eclipse of the Sun in the UK

On 20 March a total eclipse of the Sun will take place, visible from the North Atlantic Ocean. Observers in the UK and Ireland will see a partial solar eclipse, with up to 97% of the Sun blocked out. This will be the deepest eclipse in the UK since 1999 and until 2026.

13 Mar 2015

EPFL and Partners Develop Low-Cost Medical Radiography Device

Two thirds of humankind do not have access to radiography, essential to the practice of modern medicine. On March 9th in Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL and its partners presented GlobalDiagnostiX, a high-tech device ten times cheaper when considering existing pieces of equipment together with their maintenance costs, and specifically designed for developing countries. Famous economist Jeffrey Sachs is enthusiastic about this project!

10 Mar 2015

SLAC X-Ray Laser Reveals Inner Structure of Infectious Mimivirus

For the first time, researchers have produced a 3-D image revealing part of the inner structure of an intact, infectious virus, using a unique X-ray laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The virus, called Mimivirus, is in a curious class of “giant viruses” discovered just over a decade ago.

4 Mar 2015

Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy Helps to Capture Comprehensive Microscopic Images of Ultra-Small Bacteria

Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the Department of Energy and the University of California have captured the first comprehensive microscopic images of ultra-small bacteria.

2 Mar 2015

Freescale Semiconductor Debuts S32V Automotive Vision SoC with Ability to ‘Co-Pilot’ Self-Aware Car

Freescale Semiconductor today introduced the groundbreaking S32V vision microprocessor – the first automotive vision system-on-chip (SoC) with the requisite reliability, safety and security measures to automate and ‘co-pilot’ a self-aware car.

2 Mar 2015

FotoNation’s Auto-Focus Solution Implemented in ALCATEL ONETOUCH’s IDOL 3 Smartphone

FotoNation Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera Technologies, Inc. and the leading provider of computational imaging solutions for mobile phones and digital still cameras, and ALCATEL ONETOUCH, one of the fastest growing smartphone brands in the world and part of TCL Communication, the sixth largest† mobile phone vendor in the world, have joined forces to take mobile handset auto-focus (AF) systems to a whole new level of speed and quality.

2 Mar 2015

Vidyo Mobile Video Conferencing Solution Selected for Samsung Galaxy S6 Smartphone

Vidyo Inc. announced today that its mobile video conferencing solution was selected to be featured for the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone. The VidyoMobileTM app delivers one-touch HD multipoint video conferencing over Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G wireless networks.

2 Mar 2015

Miniter Group Releases Insurance Tracking Software with Optical Character Recognition Technology

Miniter Group today announced a major release of it's Borrower-Centric outsource insurance tracking software. This release supports optical character recognition (OCR) technology which will significantly improve transactional efficiencies within the Insurance Tracking Department.

28 Feb 2015

Advanced 3D Optical Imaging and Photon Counting Encryption Transform QR Codes for Protecting Computer Microchips

QR, or Quick Response, codes - those commonly black and white boxes that people scan with a smartphone to learn more about something - have been used to convey information about everything from cereals to cars and new homes.

28 Feb 2015

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