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Innovation roadmap to improve smartphone apps for point-of-care diagnosis and treatment guidance

April 19, 2021
A new review paper looks at advanced research in smartphone-based imaging systems for healthcare. The researchers focused on understanding the core functionality necessary for biomedical imaging and the most effective...

What should the new Advanced Research & Invention Agency look like?

April 15, 2021
Following the announcement of the proposed launch of the new Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA), Naomi Ikeda notes that details have been kept light to enable the first director...

Recycled graphene from tyres can make more environmentally friendly concrete

April 8, 2021
This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists have optimised a process to convert waste from rubber tyres into graphene that can, in turn, be...

Industrialisation of fundamental physics research advances light source and sensor technologies

March 29, 2021
Collaboration between specialist academic research and industrial expert engineers is proving key to the accelerated transfer of research knowledge from lab to market and the advancement of real world light...

COVID waste is killing animals – how to pick COVID PPE litter safely

March 26, 2021
How many times have you stepped over someone else's lost or discarded facemask crushed in the dirt beneath your feet, grimaced and thought "how disgusting!" Were you even tempted to...

A novel light harvesting engine strings buckyballs and chromophores on DNA

February 26, 2021
Researchers have synthesised a novel type of organic light-harvesting supramolecule by arranging fluorescent dyes and bucky balls in three-dimensions using a DNA scaffold. The resulting helical string of electron donors...

UK gov to launch Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA)

February 23, 2021
As part of its plans to cement the UK’s position as a global science superpower and build back better through innovation, the government plans to emulate high risk, high reward...

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