Profit warning wipes £100m off SDL
The chief executive of SDL has vowed to turn the troubled software and technology company around, after a profit warning wiped nearly £100m off its market value. Pre-tax profit will…
Cutting science spending is bad economics
A decade ago, the Human Genome Project published the reference sequence of our species’s genetic code at a cost estimated at $3bn. How things change: the UK Department of Health…
Can financial engineering heal medical funding?
©Science Photo Library A cervical cancer cell: a concerted effort to cure cancer must rank as one of the least controversial proposals going Can financial engineering cure cancer? It is…
Science: the creed of the gannets
©Tom Warlow Gannet colonies respect each other’s fishing grounds, without territorial aggression Scientists studying gannet colonies around the coasts of Britain and Ireland have made a surprising discovery about the…
Copyright and intellectual property
©Getty Recent “patent wars” between mobile-phone makers Apple, Samsung, HTC and others over smartphone technology have highlighted the importance of businesses being able to protect their intellectual property rights. Copyright…
Manchester confirmed as science leader
©Reuters Another breakthrough in research into graphene – the superthin, superstrong material expected to transform many everyday products – has confirmed Manchester’s leadership in the field. Russian scientists Andre Geim…
Big data has to show it’s not Big Brother
©Ingram Pinn Sales of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four have risen since Edward Snowden revealed how the National Security Agency of the US gains access to telephone records and data from…
Manchester scientists unveil ‘magnetic’ graphene
Scientists at Manchester University, who discovered graphene just nine years ago, have demonstrated another remarkable property of what many have hailed as the first wonder material of the 21st century.…
Oxford Instruments squeezed
Oxford Instruments has warned of a slow start to its new financial year, as a tightening of US health budgets threatens to limit demand for nanotechnology equipment that allows scientists…
China launches its longest space flight
China launched its longest-ever space mission on Tuesday, marking another milestone on its path towards developing its own space station. Shenzhou-X lifted off at 5.38pm from the space centre near…
Using digital to explain a product
The story Hiperbaric, a company of about 50 employees based in Burgos, Spain, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-pressure processing (HPP) machines for the food industry. This…
Scientists develop first lung cancer ‘vaccine’
Argentine and Cuban scientists have developed the world’s first lung cancer “vaccine”, that clinical trials have shown prolonged the life of three times more patients in the late stages of…
Science: New visions of the human heart
©Nic Smith, Matt Sinclair and Eoin Hyde Imaging is transforming medical diagnostics, as newer scanning techniques reveal far more than traditional X-rays about what is going on inside our bodies.…
Coalition MPs back fight to save museums
MPs from the ruling coalition have joined the fight to save three national museums in northern England, piling pressure on the government not to impose deeper cuts. The Science Museum…
Huawei embedded in UK telecoms
Just eight months ago, Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder, was feted by politicians in Westminster on a rare visit to the west to announce plans to double investment into the UK.…