Getting old, dying and other endangered ideas
A long-awaited documentary examines human mortality. The controversy is more about separating science from pseudo-science than about longevity
Can a budget airline out-innovate the full price squadron?
Will spoilt holidays and disrupted travel become a thing of the past? easyJet hopes its new technology will allow travellers to keep on flying, despite eruptions like the one earlier this year
Cameron on innovation and power
Watch the new UK premier explaining his ideas about innovation, before he got the job
Martyn Poliakoff: green chemist, big hair, YouTube god?
Even his much more famous brother is probably not as famous online
Dancing lessons from an elephant?
A giant corporation gives us a crash course on their novel approach to innovation [Video]
TSB £4.5m competition deadline June 30
The UK’s Technology Strategy Board is running a £4.5m competition for research into ‘smart’ energy use in homes. The deadline is June 30, 2010. The TSB is primarily interested in…
Did the recent “We’ve Just Created Life” coverage leave you feeling a bit ‘engineered’?
Sounds like you need to watch a Video of the Synthetic Biology Debate at the Edinburgh Science Festival
The eCar guys that don’t build cars
Who are those guys? If they don’t build cars, what do they do? This short video tells you exactly what the eCar guys do.
Easy being green? Not if you make mobile handsets
It’s all the consumer’s fault (green mobile phone consciousness is only just warming up)
Round-up: nanotech provides battery power
Image via Wikipedia We could go on and on like the Duracell bunny about advances in battery and super-capacitor technology but we’ve decided to go with the flow (of ions)…
Funding for new innovation centres
Herman Hauser persuades the government to create innovation centres
UK Innovation fund launches to help start-ups
The British government has begun the process of distributing £325 million to small and medium-sized businesses.
Bluffer’s guide to nanotechnology
A charmingly British academic video explaining the nuts and bolts, so to speak, of nanotechnology.
Businesslike approach puts UK start-ups ahead
The UK provides the best environment for innovation investment according to BASF Venture Capital investment manager Dr Oliver Guthmann.