University Electronics

The sixtieth anniversary of Alan Turing's arrival at the University of Manchester has been celebrated in music made from sounds recorded around a PC.

A research expedition investigated potential threats from tsunamis to coastal communities along the west European margin,” said the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton

The flyer is powered by has six rotors mounted at three different angles, an arrangement dubbed HexRotor, and is powered by Li-ion cells

Scientists at Berkeley fabricate negative refractive index materials for visible and near-infrared light. "It is the first bulk material that can be described as having optical magnetism, so both the electrical and magnetic fields in a light wave move backward in the material," they say.

Students at the University of Southampton have developed a low cost robot for swarm intelligence research. "The clever issue is using surface mount motors from mobile phone vibrators so the whole thing can be made on a standard production line," academic Klaus-Peter Zauner told Electronics Weekly.

Today is the 60th birthday of 'Baby', the University of Manchester experimental computer some claim to be the first stored programme digital computer.

The University of Nottingham develops a technique to grow bulk cubic GaN, avoiding the natural hexagonal structure, and has extended its work to AlGaN.

The University of Manchester has a graphene-based transparent conductor for LCDs that out-performs ITO (indium tin oxide), and could cost less.

Mobius Microsystems of Sunnyvale, California, a spin-out from the University of Michigan in 2004, announces a CMOS IC which generates its own frequencies on-chip at the Globalpress Summit Conference in San Francisco.

Tufts University in Massachusetts is working on a soft-bodied robot based on a caterpillar: the tobacco hornworm, manduca sexta.