Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microbes used for health, agriculture, or other applications must be able to withstand extreme conditions, and ideally, the manufacturing processes used to make tablets for long-term storage. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to make microbes strong enough to withstand these extreme conditions. Their method involves mixing bacteria with … Read more
Openreach (BT) has begun the process of reviewing its position on compliance with its “place of residenceThis could lead to them taking further contractual action against alternative UK broadband networks (altnets) that are struggling to meet the necessary 90% performance threshold, which could ultimately include restrictions on network access. To give this some context, Openreach’s … Read more
Credit: University of Manchester Engineers from the University of Manchester have unlocked the secrets of designing a robot that can jump 120 meters – higher than any other jumping robot designed to date. Using a combination of mathematics, computer simulations and laboratory experiments, the researchers have discovered how to design a robot with the optimal … Read more
The new filter, which is about the size of a quarter, could revolutionize wireless communications. Credit: Troy Olsson, Xingyu Du In the early 2010s, LightSquared, a multibillion-dollar company that promised to revolutionize mobile communications, went bankrupt. The company couldn’t figure out how to prevent its signals from interfering with those of GPS systems. Now Penn … Read more