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Italian wind
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Airtricity has entered into a joint venture with Italian renewable energy company Entropya to develop a portfolio of wind-farm sites across Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily....
03 07 2008
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Making small sense
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Scientists at Southampton University are to develop low-power silicon sensors for biosensing and environmental monitoring applications. ...
03 07 2008
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Drill down for gas
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Centrica has secured interests in three exploration licences to drill for gas in the coal beds of south Wales....
03 07 2008
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Heart monitor
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A new system for diagnosing people with a high risk of heart disease has been developed by a team of Israeli engineers....
03 07 2008
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Severn Trent Water fined
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The Water Services Regulation Authority confirmed yesterday that it had fined Severn Trent Water £35.8m for deliberately providing false information....
03 07 2008
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Bone simulator
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Using an IBM supercomputer, scientists have demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structures....
02 07 2008
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Taking power to Tunisia
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Alstom has been awarded a turnkey contract, worth approximately €335m, to construct a 400MW combined-cycle power plant in Algeria....
02 07 2008
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Managing manure
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A system which turns farmyard waste water into water fit to bathe in has been developed by Edinburgh University engineers....
02 07 2008
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Flying microspheres
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Edinburgh-based Microsphere Technology has signed an intellectual property licence deal worth in excess of $1m with Trelleborg Engineered Systems....
02 07 2008
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Quantum leap for lasers
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The European Commission has awarded a research grant of £8m to a consortium of universities and companies to develop a new generation of smaller and cheaper biomedical lasers....
02 07 2008
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ColonCAD aids diagnosis
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Doctors may be able to diagnose cancers of the colon more accurately and quickly with new Computer Aided Diagnostics (CAD) software from UK-based Medicsight....
02 07 2008
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Carbides manoeuvre into space
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Heat-resilient carbide materials being developed at Cambridge University and Imperial College could be used to construct a space plane that is far more manoeuvrable than the Space Shuttle....
02 07 2008
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This week in 1962: Telstar
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Of all the milestones in the history of aviation and spaceflight, the launch on 10 July 1962 of Telstar arguably went on to touch more lives than any other....
01 07 2008
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Baby monitor
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UK researchers are to develop a prototype of a new electronic monitor that could potentially improve the treatment given to hundreds of babies every year....
01 07 2008
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On the boil
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Researchers have shown that by adding a layer of nanomaterials to the bottom of a metal vessel, an order of magnitude less energy is required to bring water to boil....
01 07 2008
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