Scotland’s tech showcase, EIE25, will co-host the Tech Tour’s Growth Deeptech event next year, bringing later-stage companies and investors from across the EU to Edinburgh in May.

In tests, a swarm of robots measuring a few millionths of a metre long – about the size of a blood cell – were guided magnetically to sites in the stomach of rats. The robots were manufactured by coating tiny algae with magnetic particles. They could be tracked in tissue close to the skin’s surface by imaging the algae’s natural fluorescence, and in hard-to-reach deeper tissue by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

  Carbon emissions have been significantly limited by wind farms in Great Britain. A study shows that wind farms in the UK have certainly reduced carbon emissions from other sources of power generation.  

  Companies looking to find expertise and innovative solutions to the technical challenges, needs and opportunities faced by industry, are in luck as a new AIMday (Academic Industry Meeting day) has been announced, by Edinburgh Research & Innovative (ERI).

Scientists have devised a technique for visualising tissues that could aid diagnosis and treatment of diseases including cancer. The new approach is more sensitive than existing tools and could help researchers detect illnesses at a much earlier stage. Doctors may also be able to check how well a patient is responding to a treatment by monitoring changes occurring in cells.

A technology developed by a research team at the University of Edinburgh’s Li-Fi R&D Centre, led by Professor Harald Haas, is set to bring significant commercial and social benefits to millions of people across the world. The new form of wireless data communication uses solar energy to create power for Li-Fi, which will be particularly useful in rural communities and the developing world that do not have existing infrastructures fo...

Edinburgh Research and Innovation, the commercialisation arm of The University of Edinburgh, has announced a new AIMday (The Academic Industry Meeting) for companies looking to find an innovative solution to challenges around sensors and signal processing.

A new research centre focusing on faster and more reliable internet connections has been opened at the University of Edinburgh. Promising a bright future for web technology, the new research facility will develop a new generation of high-speed internet technology which is more secure and versatile than Wi-Fi.