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Here are some artificial intelligence stats

January 21, 2015
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy coined the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in 1955, defining it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines".

Nottingham Trent to expand STEM

January 20, 2015
Nottingham Trent University is to invest £10.3 million to establish further facilities devoted to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The university will receive £5 million – the maximum bid for...

GSK ups stake in neurodegenerative disease

January 19, 2015
GSK has added its support to the Open Innovation Challenge in Neurodegenerative Disease. The initiative – launched by Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst and six Academic Health Science Centre Technology Transfer Organisations...

Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies

January 16, 2015
In 2013, Dr Jim McQuaid took to the skies in an airship to find out what causes clouds – the result was last year’s BBC broadcast Operation Cloud Lab. We...

AstraZenica to open up compound library

January 13, 2015
AstraZenica and Cancer Research UK have signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ allowing CRUK investigators access to drug discovery facilities. As part of the five-year collaboration scientists from Cancer Research UK...

First Commercial use for PIM

January 12, 2015
A polymer invented by academics at the University of Manchester has found its first commercial use in a sensor that identifies when filters in industrial respirators must be changed. The...

Rise of the machines?

January 12, 2015
Rise of the machines? Snuff and nonsense says Russ Swan – when it comes to sensors, there is an awful lot to be said for us meat bags…

The perfect couple

January 8, 2015
The ongoing process of developing new therapeutic drugs has driven research towards a desire to understand drug-target interactions at a molecular level. One group of potential targets attracting a great...

Another year, another set of impossible resolutions…

January 5, 2015
It's a brand new year and as tradition dictates, a time when we make impossible promises we have absolutely no intention of keeping.

Why did you become a scientist?

January 2, 2015
I ask because at the tail end of last year the Government published the much anticipated science and innovation strategy outlining how much money it will spend on science over...

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