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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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Name: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

New Centre

New Centre for Sustainable Road Freight is launched

Industry Channel: Transport & DistributionThe Centre for Sustainable Road Freight has been launched, hoping to minimise environmental impact of road freight transport, as well as make it economically and socially sustainable.The centre, a £6 million UK ... [Published Logistics Manager - 15 hours ago]

Entities: New Centre, Wincanton plc, Logistics, Cambridge University Engineering Department, environmental impact

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

$5.6m PRiME project to develop energy-efficient computing systems

A group of electronic engineers and computer scientists from four of the country's leading universities have joined forces in a bid to create the next wave of energy-efficient computing systems.The £5.6 million project is dubbed PRiME (Power-efficient, ... [Published Applegate - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, University of Southampton, Imperial College London

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

King's College London

Disruption of brain developmental processes caused by premature birth can affect cognitive function

Imaging technique shows premature birth interrupts vital brain development processes, leading to reduced cognitive abilities in infantsResearchers from King's College London have for the first time used a novel form of MRI to identify crucial developmental ... [Published News-Medical.Net - May 21 2013]

Entities: Premature Baby, King's College London, Diffusion

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Institute of Sound and Vibration Research

Echolocation: Blind people have the potential to use their 'inner bat' to locate objects, study finds

The study, which is published in the journal Hearing Research, examined how hearing, and particularly the hearing of echoes, could help blind people with spatial awareness and navigation. The study also examined the possible effects of hearing impairment ... [Published Science Daily - May 20 2013]

Entities: Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Cyprus, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Audiology

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

University of Reading

University develops digital home health aid

The University of Reading will work with two other leading universities to develop a digital home health assistant that will help save lives.The £12 million project is being led by the University of Bristol, together with Reading and Southampton, and ... [Published Reading Post - May 21 2013]

Entities: Health Care, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, University of Reading, University of Bristol

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

A Trophy for the Chemistry Cabinet

The search for cleaner, low temperature nuclear fuels has produced a shock result for a team of experts at The University of Nottingham. Working with experts in the Photon Science Institute at The University of Manchester, and with funding from the Royal ... [Published Labmate Online - May 20 2013]

Entities: Chemistry, Molecule, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Nuclear, David King

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

ARM Holdings plc

Many-core processor research project launched

Computer scientists are designing more energy-efficient and dependable ‘many-core’ processor systemsElectronic engineers and computer scientists are aiming to design and implement more energy-efficient and dependable ‘many-core’ processor embedded systems, ... [Published Institution of Electrical Engineers - May 17 2013]

Entities: ARM Holdings plc, Architecture, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Imperial finds partners

Top research powerhouses form new consortiumSharingYeah, they've partnered with UCL for something. Dragging ourselves down BIG TIMEImperial has partnered with Oxford, Cambridge, UCL and Southampton to form a new consortium named Science and Engineering ... [Published Felix Online - May 17 2013]

Entities: Imperial College London, Consortium, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, High Performance Computing, David Price

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 3 reports

Technology lets fragile, 'unreadable' historical documents to be read

British researchers say new technology can read "unreadable," fragile historic documents that could crack and crumble if unrolled or unfolded. Pioneering X-ray technology developed at Cardiff University and Queen Mary, University of London is making it ... [Published Individual.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Corroboration, Iron, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Technology reads secrets of ancient scrolls

Developed at Cardiff University and Queen Mary, University of London with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the breakthrough means historians will be able to access previously unusable written sources and gain new insight ... [Published Engineer Online - May 16 2013]

Entities: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Queen Mary, University of London, Cardiff University

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

University of Southampton shares £5.6m grant

The University of Southampton is to share a 5.6m grant to research the next generation of energy-efficient computing. PRiME a collaborative project with Imperial College London, the University of Manchester and Newcastle University has been awarded the ... [Published Insider Media Limited - May 16 2013]

Entities: University of Southampton, Stocks, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

University gets funding to fight cyber crime

ROYAL Holloway University has been given nearly £4 million to help fight the increasing threat of cyber crime.The Egham college received one of only two grants awarded nationally from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and ... [Published Get Surrey - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cybercrime, Keith Martin, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Cyber Security

Quotes

"Reducing fuel consumption and meeting sustainability targets are key priorities of the road freight industry, said Dave Rowlands, technical director at Wincanton and chairman of the new centre."

New Centre for Sustainable Road Freight is launched [Published Logistics Manager - 15 hours ago]

The scanning takes place at the InstituteInstitute of Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London led by Dr Graham Davis: "Because no commercial or research X-ray tomography scanners were capable of providing the quality of image we needed, we’ve developed our own advanced scanner which is also being adapted for a diverse range of other scientific uses, including those within our own Institute of Dentistry where enhanced, high contrast images are enabling the detection and analysis of features in teeth that we haven’t been able to see before."

Reading the Unreadable [Published Cardiff University - 16 hours ago]

"Our vision is to enable the sustainability of many-core systems by preventing the uncontrolled increase in energy consumption and unreliability through a step-change in design methods and cross–layer system optimisation" Professor Al-Hashimi explained

$5.6m PRiME project to develop energy-efficient computing systems [Published Applegate - 16 hours ago]

"So if you could use oxygen, where the by-product of the oxidation process is water, that would be a significant advantage. It would be more economically viable and it would be cleaner" said Professor Sweeney

£1 million project to produce safer oxygen [Published EurekAlert! - May 21 2013]

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New Centre for Sustainable Road Freight is laun... [Published Logistics Manager - 15 hours ago]
Reading the Unreadable [Published Cardiff University - 16 hours ago]
$5.6m PRiME project to develop energy-efficient... [Published Applegate - 16 hours ago]
Does the UK need a manufacturing strategy? Live... [Published The Manufacturer - 19 hours ago]
£1 million project to produce safer oxygen [Published EurekAlert! - May 21 2013]
Cracking the 1,000-core processor power challenge [Published ZDNet - May 21 2013]
University develops digital home health aid [Published Reading Post - May 21 2013]
Disruption of brain developmental processes cau... [Published News-Medical.Net - May 21 2013]
Study shows premature birth interrupts vital br... [Published Medical Xpress - May 20 2013]
News: Nnuman puts machining processes under the... [Published Rotherham Business News - May 20 2013]
Echolocation: Blind people have the potential t... [Published Science Daily - May 20 2013]
A Trophy for the Chemistry Cabinet [Published Labmate Online - May 20 2013]
Many-core processor research project launched [Published Institution of Electrical Engineers - May 17 2013]
Imperial finds partners [Published Felix Online - May 17 2013]
Antimatter study into big question [Published BBC - May 17 2013]
Massive grant for Swansea University academic D... [Published This Is South Wales - May 17 2013]
Technology lets fragile, 'unreadable' historica... [Published Individual.com - May 16 2013]
X-rays help 'read' historic scrolls [Published BBC - May 16 2013]
Technology reads secrets of ancient scrolls [Published Engineer Online - May 16 2013]
UK researchers develop new app to transform dra... [Published Computer Business Review - May 16 2013]
Abracadabra for fragile scrolls [Published Compute Scotland - May 16 2013]
University of Southampton shares £5.6m grant [Published Insider Media Limited - May 16 2013]
University gets funding to fight cyber crime [Published Get Surrey - May 16 2013]
UK government gives £7.... [Published Acumin - May 16 2013]
£7.5m for cyber security training centres [Published Government Technology UK - May 15 2013]
Synthetic biology dialogue - Impacts [Published BBSRC - May 15 2013]
EPSRC invests £32m in projects to develop smart... [Published MTB Europe - May 14 2013]
£5.6m national collaboration to develop the nex... [Published EurekAlert! - May 14 2013]
Multimillion pound project to develop next gene... [Published University of Manchester - May 14 2013]
Four Universities Partner For £5.6m PRIME Chip ... [Published TechWeekEurope UK - May 14 2013]

Blogs

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Aesica Partners with the University of Nottingh... [Published Pharma-Mag - May 07 2013] Latest Aesica Innovation Board (AIB) initiative to increase yields and reduce costs of production. Aesica, the global contract manufacturing organisation (CMO), announces a partnership with the University of Nottingham for the commercial development ...
Google and Prediction: Not Thin Gruel, Please [Published Beyond Search - Apr 28 2013] The Google religion continues to diffuse in the UK. I read “ Google Searches Predict Market Moves .” Predictive analytics can be useful. Years ago I was on the Board of Directors of NuTech Solutions , one of the then world leading firms in predictive ...
Battling with Bugs to Prevent Antibiotic Resist... [Published Pharma-Mag - Apr 24 2013] New scientific research published today in the journal PLoS Biology shows that bacteria can evolve resistance more quickly when stronger antibiotics are used. Researchers from the University of Exeter ( www.exeter.ac.uk ) and Kiel University in Germany ...
PhD Position on Privacy Enhancing Technologies ... [Published Light Blue Touchpaper - Mar 22 2013] Applications are invited for one PhD position in the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory to work with Dr Steven Murdoch. Funding for this position is provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in collaboration with ...
New UK academic research institute for software... [Published Infosecurity - Latest News - Mar 21 2013] The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have jointly announced the UK’s second Academic Research Institute tasked with researching techniques for Automated Program Analysis and ...

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High Resolution CT Scan Tracks Butterfly Metamo... [Published Wired Videos - May 14 2013]
High Resolution CT Scan Tracks Butterfly Metamo... [Published Wired Videos - May 14 2013]

Press Releases

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Coun... [Published Financial Services - Jan 14 2013]
Technology use in the classroom helps autistic ... [Published CisionWire - English - Nov 29 2012]