‘ExoBuilding’ is a piece of adaptive architecture which has been designed and built by a team of scientists and architects at The University of Nottingham. The project has been pioneered by the University’s Mixed Reality Lab, which creates interactive technologies to enhance everyday life and is partially supported by the...
If you happen to be in the New Forest over the next couple of months, why not take part in an ambitious citizen science project that seeks to track down the last remaining individuals of a species of insect that is on the verge of extinction in the UK. The New Forest...
Last year, reporters for the Associated Press attempted to figure out which jobs were being lost to new technology. They analysed employment data from 20 countries and interviewed experts, software developers and CEOs. They found that almost all the jobs that had disappeared in the past four years were not...
Over the course of the winter, while the cicada sleeps underground, re-searchers at Southampton have been busy improving the app’s performance on older phones and tweaking the algorithm that distinguishes between different species of insect, and are now ready for the next season.
Based on an analysis of historical data and...
Nature lovers are hunting for a one-inch long bug named as one of the most endangered creatures in the country.
The mating squeak of the New Forest Cicada is so high-pitched that only children and people younger than 40 are likely to hear it.
It has not been seen since 2000 and...
Dr. Long Tran-Thanh, a research fellow at University of Southampton, hailing from Hue, Vietnam (but grew up in Budapest, Hungary), is attending Parliament to present his science to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of “SET for Britain” on Monday 17 March.
Long’s poster on...
It has been nearly a week since flight Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared some time after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Despite searches led by the Malaysian authorities, there is still no trace of the plane.
There have been several red herrings. What appeared to be oil slicks were spotted...
It is the elusive creature with a high-pitched song that lives in one part of Hampshire.
But now the New Forest cicada has been named as one of the most endangered animals in the entire country.
The insect – the only one of its type in the country – has not been...
It has been nearly a week since flight Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared some time after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Despite searches led by the Malaysian authorities, there is still no trace of the plane.
There have been several red herrings. What appeared to be oil slicks were spotted...
IT IS the elusive creature with a high-pitched song that only lives in one part of Hampshire.
But now the New Forest cicada has been named as one of the most endangered animals in the entire country.
The insect – the only one of its type in the country – has not...
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