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The events industry has become increasingly reliant on effective power distribution. Whether it is a large-scale music festival with elaborate light shows or small corporate events with sound systems and presentations, tech development has driven higher rates of energy usage from event organisers. With the festival season coming up, Matt Collins, business development manager of power distribution specialist ide Systems, explains how contractors c...

Helped by EU funding, Ultrahaptics is the first and only company in the world to develop a device which allows users to feel sensations with their bare hands while interacting in mid-air with a touchless sensing system. This frontier heralds a fundamentally new relationship with technology.The EU-funded UTOUCH project has enabled the development of ultrasonic speakers which project Invisible forces into the air, capable of being felt on human ski...

Biomedical engineers have developed a miniature self-sealing model system for studying bleeding and the clotting of wounds. The researchers envision the device as a drug discovery platform and potential diagnostic tool.A description of the system, and representative movies, are scheduled for publication inNature Communications.Lead author Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD says that blood clotting involves the damaged blood vessel, platelets, blood clotting pro...

Thyroid cancer is a disease with good cure rates in most cases. In 5% of patients, however, the tumour becomes refractory to the available therapies and may spread all over the body, causing death.

Have you ever wondered what IEC 60067-19 means, or could mean for you? Well here, Dr. Martin Killeen of the AEMT (Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades) outlines the requirements of the international Repair, Overhaul and Reclamation of Hazardous Area Equipment standard IEC 60079-19, and highlights how it impacts on both the service provider and the end user.

One of theNorth East’s civil engineering firms,Seymour Civil Engineering,has launched its own company training portal set to digitally change the way construction sites are run.The portal focuses on the training and staffing side of projects allowing any site manager or client to have a clearsnapshot of staff-on-site and theirtraining credentials, whilst automatically prompting the system administration team before employee training require...

UK-based fastener, jig and fixing specialist, WDS Component Parts has employed Sam Wilkinson as an apprentice engineer, honing his skills ready for a future role in the aerospace industry and boosting the CAD team at the company’s Leeds facility.

In the 2018 R1 release of Edgecam, from Vero Software, major enhancements will include time saving updates to roughing cycles for milling, turning and MTM…and the prevention of unnecessary CAM regeneration.

Cancer genomics analysis is a promising approach to predict drug response and outcome. With PanDrugs, the PERSMEDOMICS project provides an innovative bioinformatics methodology to guide the selection of therapies based on individual patients’ genomic profile.PanDrugs is one of the missing links between the potential of biomarkers as predictive tools for treatment outcome and their actual use in clinical settings.

Imagine a fingerprint sensor with guaranteed identification success, regardless of any fingertip alteration. The INGRESS project has brought us a step closer to achieving this high-value breakthrough in a market set to be worth EUR 7.6 billion by 2022.Ever since they started appearing on smartphones in 2007, fingerprint sensors have been proving quite popular. However, they are far from perfect: any change or damage to the finger will prevent cur...