hysicists are demanding a £4.4bn, 31-kilometre tunnel if they are to explain the mysteries of the universe
Sunday, 18 July 2010
After decades of bending atoms around giant rings and smashing them apart in search of the secrets of the universe, scientists at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory outside Geneva, are reviving a 1960s technology and [...]
Category archive for “Technology”
Forget the Large Hadron Collider. All hail Cern’s new, straight-line atom smasher
11 November, 2010 – 00:09
Panasonic’s vision of the future is in 3D – and all shades of green
10 November, 2010 – 22:29
The Japanese giant wants to sell us its hi-tech stereoscopic TV screens, but its heart lies in its eco principles – and the humble battery
Sunday, 12 September 2010
The acrobat was performing the Spanish web, winding down from the ceiling on a red ribbon in a move many Britons will remember from an advert promoting BBC1. [...]
Ten years on, and still the brightest light in space
10 November, 2010 – 22:14
The International Space Station flies over the UK tonight, so keep your eyes peeled
Sunday, 7 November 2010
The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, which has some critics wondering if it is worth $100bn
If you look to the heavens between sunset and moonrise tonight, at 6.20pm in London, the brightest object you’ll [...]
Europe’s tallest structure to be cut down to size
22 June, 2009 – 00:00
A planned reduction of a Lincolnshire TV mast has prompted protests
It is more than 1,000ft high, but so unobtrusive that most people in the UK never even realised it existed, let alone that it held a European record. Now, Belmont Transmitting Station, one mile west of the quiet village of Donington on Bain, is about [...]
Fantastic voyage: new-generation imaging heralds revolution in medical treatment
8 February, 2009 – 00:00
From a cluster of Chiltern villages, GE Healthcare is leading the way in detecting and treating diseases
For the lucky, a check-up at the GP consists of nothing more sophisticated than a blood-pressure cuff, an icy stethoscope and a jar to pee in. For those with bigger problems, it can involve medicine’s heavy artillery, from bedside [...]
Aegate steals a march in war against counterfeit drugs
23 November, 2008 – 00:00
Aegate, the drug authentication business, will move into Ireland in January, strengthening its position ahead of expected EU legislation to fight the growing threat of counterfeit drugs.
The beating heart of the hi-tech world in hospitals
1 June, 2008 – 00:00
The computerisation of the NHS is not on its sickbed – it’s alive and kicking, explains the boss of GE Healthcare
Nigel Mason is apologetic when he arrives at GE’s British head office in Berkeley Square, central London. This isn’t his building, explains the boss of GE Healthcare UK as we wait for security to sign [...]
Goggles return as TV and film go 3-D
13 April, 2008 – 10:42
A whole range of new films are being made as the new wave of 3D cinema allows such realism to be created on much lower budgets than in the past
Once 3D entertainment meant fumbling aroundwith a pair of multi-coloured spectacles that made you dizzy, before settling down in the cinema to watch a plotless film [...]
Now that’s reality TV: Samsung takes us into the next dimension
13 April, 2008 – 00:00
The Korean giant is going back to the future to create 3D vision that will propel golf balls from your screen
‘Fore!” When Tiger Woods smashes the ball straight for their heads, most people flinch – some duck – until the point-of-view pulls back to show trees hurtling past along the fairway. The simulacrum of the [...]
Bill Gates: The hi-tech future is now
6 January, 2008 – 00:00
It’s notoriously difficult to predict trends, as Bill Gates has discovered to his cost. But, as the Microsoft boss opens the Consumer Electronics Show, what should we be looking out for?
Gannon and Gage Swanston are already pioneers of the 21st-century media era at the tender ages of seven and four. When they visit friends’ homes, [...]
