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When David Gisselsson Nord, a cancer researcher at Lund University in Sweden, read a history book last summer, he was struck by the similarities between how cancer and insurgencies evolve over time. Could military strategy be used as inspiration for cancer treatment? He teamed up with Robert Egnell at the Swedish Defence University to find an entirely novel approach to his field.

Bittium exhibits its innovative products and mobile solutions at the Mobile World Congress 2017 exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, February 27 – March 2. Bittium presents a new software version of its secure Bittium Tough Mobile LTE smartphone with Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system. Bittium will also present newly launched Confidential classification level version of the Bittium Tough Mobile with related Bittium Secure Suite device mana...

STI Electronicswill exhibit at the SMTA Houston Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, March 9, 2017 at the Stafford Centre in Houston, TX. Company representatives will discuss STI’s Training Resources and Engineering Services divisions.STI’s Training Services division develops customised training courses to fit specific training needs. Typically, STI builds these classes around company-specific standards and specifi...

TT Electronics has announced that its sensors will be used in the NASA mission to the planet Mars in 2020. The robustness of the company’s Hall-effect sensors enables them to withstand the harsh environments found on Mars.The Hall-effect sensors from TT Electronics are key components in NASA’s new Mars 2020 Rover that will be landing on the surface of the red planet in 2021.

A new set of standards for the ethical design of robots and robotic devices has been released by the British Standards Institute (BSI).The standards highlight the growing need for guidelines on robotic safety, contact with human beings, robotic deception, addiction and possible sexism or racism exhibited by self-learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems.Graham Mackrell, Managing Director of robotic gearing specialist Harmonic Drive UK, explai...

The UK-wide initiative to encourage more young people into manufacturing as a career, Made Here Now, is celebrating a major milestone with the launch of a new website at MadeHereNow.com, containing inspirational videos, success stories and photography.

Steve Rogerson looks at some of the recent news that may have missed the front page.

Space is becoming ever more cluttered with defunct satellites, spent rocket boosters and sundry stray pieces after the first satellite was launched almost 60 years ago.

A simple chemistry method could vastly enhance how scientists search for signs of life on other planets.The test uses a liquid-based technique known as capillary electrophoresis to separate a mixture of organic molecules into its components. It was designed specifically to analyse for amino acids, the structural building blocks of all life on Earth.

Determining the exact configuration of proteins and other complex biological molecules is an important step toward understanding their functions, including how they bind with receptors in the body. But such imaging is difficult to do. It usually requires the molecules to be crystallised first so that X-ray diffraction techniques can be applied — and not all such molecules can be crystallised.