The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the formation of Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), to support collaboration among researchers and spur scientific discovery
An interface developed at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne already allows users to manoeuvre wheelchairs by thought transference. Now this will be applied to cars
The advent of personalised medicine means cancer survival over the long term could be improved by running smaller, faster trials with less stringent evidence criteria, the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Sweden heard this week
Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing says it is possible to automatically scan for gems in Chinese language journals and patents
The quality of patent filings has fallen by 20 per cent over the past two decades. And the rush to protect even minor improvements in products or services is overburdening patent offices
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