The Daily Journalist Say hello to Nadine, a “receptionist” at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore). She is friendly, and will greet you back. Next time you meet her, she will remember your name and your previous conversation [...]

  By Chad Pillai.   Two years ago, I wrote that our Space Program has taken a Giant Leap Backwards because it seemed ill defined and lost the pioneering spirit we had in the 1960s.  However, the past 90 days represents both a rebirth [...]

  Alton Parrish. Very specific conditions are needed for a tiny seed to grow into a mighty tree. Providing these conditions helps to preserve biodiversity, as plants produced from cuttings are essentially clones. EU-funded researchers [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   Abandoned items of luggage are frequently found at airports and train stations. This is a case for the emergency services, who have to assume that these items might contain bombs. They must assess the potential [...]

By UNIGE.   Work of physicists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), in which they connected two materials with unusual quantum-mechanical properties through [...]

The Daily Journalist.   Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have created analog and digital electronics circuits inside living plants. The group at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE), under the leadership of Professor [...]

By University of Seville and National University of Singapore.   An experiment in Singapore has pushed quantum weirdness close to its absolute limit. Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University [...]

The Daily Journalist.   An interactive swarm of flying 3D pixels (voxels) developed at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab is set to revolutionize the way people interact with virtual reality. The system, called BitDrones, [...]

 The Daily Journalist. Flying cars, hoverboards and video chat – a very futuristic vision for the year 2015 was presented in the movie “Back to the Future Part II”, released in 1989. Now, shortly before “Back to [...]

The Daily Journalist. Fusion reactors could become an economically viable means of generating electricity within a few decades, and policy makers should start planning to build them as a replacement for conventional nuclear power stations, [...]

The pace and scale of technological change is so frenetic that some predict we are entering a fourth industrial revolution, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things and big data. Indeed, the changes are coming [...]

 The Daily Journalist.   A Mexican in Europe has helped design the prototype of a robot that is able to separate, stretch, smooth wrinkles and fold clothes. This technology participates in almost all the washing process, but introducing [...]

    By Alton Parrish.   A Mexican in Europe has helped design the prototype of a robot that is able to separate, stretch, smooth wrinkles and fold clothes. This technology participates in almost all the washing process, but [...]

  By Osaka University.     Great progress in creating new fundamental technologies such as medical applications and non-destructive inspection of social infrastructures The Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   Forget the Vulcan mind-meld of the Star Trek generation — as far as mind control techniques go, bacteria is the next frontier.  Understanding the biochemical sensing between organisms could have far reaching [...]

    By The Daily Journalist.   Mobile devices, such as smartphones and laptops, have become indispensable portable items in modern life, but one big challenge remains to fully enjoying these devices: keeping their batteries charged. A [...]

  By University of Bristol.   Exciting new technologies, which allow users to change the shape of displays with their hands, promise to revolutionise the way we interact with smartphones, laptops and computers. Imagine pulling objects [...]

  By UC Berkeley.     Researchers at University of California, Berkeley have taken inspiration from the cockroach to create a robot that can use its body shape to manoeuvre through a densely cluttered environment. Fitted with [...]

  By GIT.   Using a smart tablet and a red beam of light, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a system that allows people to control a fleet of robots with the swipe of a finger. A human operator can touch the [...]

By Mohamed Dekkak. The Dubai Municipality (DM) is now in the track of finalizing the consultant for the design of its unique project based on the stories of Aladdin and Sinbad. According to the Assistant Director General for Engineering [...]