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Driverless Car Trial Set to Go Live on UK Roads in 2019

Apr 25, 2017

Driverless cars are set to hit UK roads in 2019 after a consortium of British companies unveiled plans to test the vehicles between London and Oxford. Driven, led by driverless software group Oxbotica, received a £8.6 million grant ...

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Smart Hand Pumps Help Monitor Africa's Groundwater Resources

Mar 7, 2017

A network of smart hand pumps across the region could provide a way of monitoring groundwater reserves and improve the management and conservation of scarce water resources. Predicting groundwater depth Around 1 million hand pumps ...

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Clementoni to Launch University of Oxford Games and Puzzles This Autumn

Aug 24, 2016

''2016 has been a momentous year for Oxford with new licensees signed around the world,''said Chris Evans, MD at Oxford Limited. Clementoni is launching a line of University of Oxford game and puzzles in the UK this autumn. The range ...

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Soraa's LED Lighting Installed in University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum

Mar 30, 2016

Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology fabricated on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, says that its LED lamps have been installed at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers ...

Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN, Oxford, LED Lighting

Genetically Modified Fruit Fly to Be Trialled in WA to Protect Fruit Crop

Nov 26, 2015

Western Australian (WA) researchers are trialling technology which offers an innovative way to control the destructive Mediterranean fruit fly. Horticulture Innovation Australia along with the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western ...

Tags: fruit fly, Agriculture, Food

An Apple a Day Really Does Keep The Doctor Away, Research Shows

Feb 27, 2014

February 17, 2014 Sophie Langley An apple a day really does keep the doctor away, research shows Prescribing an apple a day to all adults aged 50 and over would prevent or delay around 8,500 vascular deaths such as heart attacks and ...

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The Study Found Russian Male Smokers Who Drank Three or More Half-Liter

Feb 10, 2014

MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Twenty-five percent of Russian men die before age 55, the average life expectancy for Russian men is age 64, and many blame vodka, researchers say. The study, published in the Lancet, found Russian male smokers ...

Tags: Vodka, Short Life

Scientists Have Discovered a 3-D Material That Behaves Like 2-D Graphene

Jan 17, 2014

Graphene—the thinnest and strongest known material in the universe and a formidable conductor of electricity and heat – gets many of its amazing properties from the fact that it occupies only two dimensions: It has length and ...

Tags: 2-D Graphene, Graphene, Chemicals

A New Gene Therapy Could Prove Key to Preventing More Common Inherited Causes of Blindness

Jan 16, 2014

A new gene therapy that successfully treated a rare eye disease in clinical trials could prove the key to preventing more common inherited causes of blindness, researchers say. In six male patients, doctors used a virus to repair a ...

Tags: Health, Medicine

The Discovery of What Is Essentially a 3D Version of Graphene

Jan 16, 2014

The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon - promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics

The Twin Primes Conjecture , Nobody Has Been Able to Confirm This So Far

Jan 15, 2014

(Phys.org) —It is one the oldest mathematical problems in the world. Several centuries ago, the twin primes conjecture was formulated. As its name indicates, this hypothesis, which many science historians have attributed to the Greek ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Mathematical Puzzle

Energy Efficient Lighting Will Help to Militate Against The Threat of Full-Blown Power Cut

Jan 8, 2014

An Oxford academic is claiming that energy efficient lighting has played a significant role in reducing energy demand in Britain and will help to militate against the threat of full-blown power cuts as the nation's ageing power stations are ...

Tags: Lights, Lighting, Energy Efficient Lamps, Lamps

People Put Most of Efforts Into Communicating with a Group of Friends or Family Members

Jan 8, 2014

Although social networking sites let users keep in touch with a wide group of acquaintances, new research shows that people still put most of their efforts into communicating with a small group of friends or family members. To maintain a ...

Tags: Social Networks, Communicating

Tripling Cigarette Taxes Around The World Would Prevent 200 Million Deaths in a Century

Jan 6, 2014

Tripling cigarette taxes around the world -- an ambitious notion -- would prevent 200 million people from dying prematurely over a century and shrink the number of smokers worldwide by one-third, a new review estimates. Tripling the taxes ...

Tags: cigarette taxes, dying prematurely, smokers, cigarette prices

Tripling Taxes Would Reduce The Number of Smokers by One-Third

Jan 3, 2014

Tripling taxes on cigarettes around the world would reduce the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths from lung cancer and other diseases this century, according to a review published today in the New ...

Tags: taxes on cigarettes, number of smokers, lung cancer, stop smoking

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