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VARTA Storage, the manufacturer of lithium-ion battery packs and of solar energy-storage appliances, has announced the introduction of its new VARTA Design Library, a comprehensive downloadable development resource for users of its CellPac LITE range of ready-made rechargeable lithium-ion battery packs.

Mars will be the closest it has been to Earth since 2005, meaning academics and amateurs alike can get a rare, bright close-up of our dusty red neighbour in the night sky. On Monday, at 9.35pm, the alien world will be just 46,762,695 miles (75,279,709km) from us as it continues its 687-day elliptical orbit around the Sun.

Advantech has announced a successful collaboration with iDklic. iDklic wins a network of 260 independent pharmacies in Belgium, all of them clients of the Belmedis group, Belgium’s second biggest wholesaler distributor.iDklic will operate the network as well as handle advertising sales on this project which launched on November 1st 2015, and which will see nearly all 260 pharmacies having to be equipped by June 1st 2016.

Predictive Maintenance is the anticipatory servicing of machinery and plants and German-based company Indalyz Monitoring & Prognostics (IM&P) has developed a piece of prognostic software that uses artificially intelligent algorithms to predict when a component on a machine will break down and have to be replaced.

The Bamboo Bicycle Club in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University have successfully built the 'world’s first ever' bamboo and 3D printed bicycle at London’s Design Museum.The live event was to coincide with the Cycling Revolution exhibition at the museum where the Bamboo Bicycle Club has been displaying another first in the form of the 'world’s first' ‘aero dynamic bamboo bicycle’.

BMW has become the first car manufacturer to introduce a mixed reality system into vehicle development that has been devised entirely using components from the computer games industry. This offers some significant advantages over the VR systems that have existed to date and is the first step towards making virtual reality a very real part of many developer workstations in the not-too-distant future.

The recently launched 48A continuous current versions of Kollmorgen’s AKD and AKD-BASIC servo drives are available from its UK Gold-Partner Heason Technology. Through seamless integration with the Kollmorgen Automation Suite and high performance Kollmorgen servo motors, the advanced AKD-series Ethernet-based servo drives now cover continuous output power up to 32 kW in a range of single and three-phase models - offering flexible and expanda...

From 1st April to 30th June 2016, the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) - the largest international competition for the commercial use of satellite navigation - will once again be looking for outstanding ideas and business models. Renowned institutions and regional partners are set to award prizes worth a total of €1m in more than 25 categories.

Einstein's theory of general relativity is to be put to the test by a newly launched satellite in an experiment that could upend our understanding of physics. The French "Microscope" orbiter will try to poke a hole in one of Einstein's most famous theories, which provides the basis for our modern understanding of gravity. Scientists will use the kit to measure how two different pieces of metal—one titanium and the other a platinum-rhodium a...

A self-driving truck under development by Scania and KTH researchers has tested successfully at speeds of up to 90 km/h.According to the research lead at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the successful tests are aimed at implementing self-driving Scania trucks in mining operations within a year or two."We have come a long way with the work and have already proven with a real truck that the task is possible," says Bo Wahlberg, professor of contr...