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Manchester has been officially named the European City of Science for 2016, highlights Manchester University. The title will be held for two years as Manchester builds towards hosting “Europe’s largest general scientific conference”, ESOF – the EuroScience Open Forum – in the summer of 2016. It is a biennial, pan-European convention dedicated to scientific research and innovation, which has just ...

Heriot-Watt university has highlighted its work with Space Engineering, one of Europe’s largest space companies, on the use of broadband satellite communication systems on planes, trains and other fast-moving platforms. According to the university, the project has attracted €1.5million funding from the European Commission, with €1 million allocated to Heriot-Watt University to test and develop new, smaller mobile Very Small ...

The University of Southampton is highlighting that its SETsquared incubation centre has been named the number one university business incubator in Europe and second best in the world. The centre is part of the SETsquared partnership, a collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. It is intended to provide “services to accelerate businesses and boost enterprise”. ...

Research led by University of Cambridge engineers claim to have made a breakthrough in superconductor science by harnessing the equivalent of three tonnes of force inside a golf ball-sized sample of material that is normally as brittle as fine china. The research team said what is significant about this discovery is that it demonstrates the potential of high-temperature superconductors for applications ...

Flying robots that can show a degree of autonomy are being developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield. The idea is that the robots could ultimately play important roles in search and rescue missions, or operate in dangerous environments. The team, based in Sheffield’s Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE), uses simple Quadcopters. They have created software ...

Manchester is getting a rival when it comes to graphene research – the University of Surrey is setting up its own  research centre to focus on graphene. It will be part of the university’s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and will include manufacturing capabilities. Surrey’s ATI already has photo thermal deposition technology, which produces large scale electronic-grade graphene on wafer-scale substrates. “The ...

An advance in developing new high-temperature superconducting materials – which could be used in lossless electrical grids, next-generation supercomputers and levitating trains – has been made by researchers from the University of Cambridge, writes Richard Wilson. They have found that ripples of electrons, known as charge density waves or charge order, create twisted ‘pockets’ of electrons in these materials, from ...

Surrey University is highlighting its first position within The Guardian University Guide 2015, for electronic and electrical engineering. Caveat emptor with all such comparison tables, of course, but The Guardian table is supposedly based on teaching standards, academic progress and employability rates. For the record, Southampton is in second place and Imperial College third. “I’m absolutely thrilled by this outcome, ...

The University of Manchester is this week hosting a graphene congress, for companies working on graphene applications of the future. It runs 12th-13th June. It is the second annual Graphene Supply, Application and Commercialisation Congress, to give it its full name, and will examine how graphene is being commercialised. Speakers at the Congress include senior researchers from leading companies involved ...

The University of Southampton has appointed Liam Maxwell, government Chief Technology Officer, as a Visiting Professor in Electronics and Computer Science. “As CTO to the UK Government, Liam Maxwell occupies one of the most significant positions in UK IT and computing,” said Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Head of the University’s Web and Internet Science Group. “He is leading a transformation ...