From SPECIAL REPORTS Jan 15, 2013

Distilled power of start-ups challenges big incumbents

Nimble young companies are exploiting fast new data sources and techniques to beat established rivals at their own games

Element Six Polycrystalline Diamond is an advanced engineering material which can deliver extreme performance within semiconductor and other technical applications picn ©Handout From INDUSTRIALS Jan 14, 2013

De Beers arm seeks to grow diamond atoms

Element Six perfects revolutionary synthetic diamond material

Soapbox from MANAGEMENT Jan 14, 2013

Beware the Google convenience store

PhD students are limiting their analytical abilities

A prototype of the kilogram, the world’s official unit of mass, at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures ©BIPM From LIFE & ARTS Jan 11, 2013

How the kilo put on weight

The original 1879 prototype of the kilogram, and 40 identical replicas housed in national laboratories around the world, are getting heavier

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Paul Jacobs: smartphone king

The Qualcomm chief has played a key role in the rise of the device, writes Chris Nuttall

Wine and weather illustration by Ingram Pinn ©Ingram Pinn From COMMENT Jan 11, 2013

Farmers must adapt to extreme weather

Food producers and consumers need to embrace change, writes Clive Cookson

From MARKETS Jan 9, 2013

Banks rethink in-house trading technology

JPMorgan’s rollout highlights profound change

From WORLD Jan 8, 2013

Military prone to cyber attack, say MPs

Armed forces would be ‘fatally compromised’ according to report

From LEX Jan 8, 2013

Global pharma: check that pulse

Patent cliff has been the industry’s excuse for a decade of underperformance

Small Talk from COMPANIES BY REGION Jan 7, 2013

Energetix fires its engines

Boiler maker switches to energy supplier

From LIFE & ARTS Jan 4, 2013

Lights off for Van Gogh?

Some of the vivid yellow pigments in the painter’s works are unstable in art gallery lighting

From ENERGY Jan 4, 2013

Abramovich invests in ‘gas-to-liquids’ in UK

Chelsea owner puts £5m into Oxford Catalysts

Jan 3, 2013

InterDigital calls for handsets ban

Samsung, Nokia, ZTE and Huawei targeted

Jan 2, 2013

Protecting information in the cloud

IT and business executives need to apply a risk-management approach that balances economic value against risks, say McKinsey consultants

From TRANSPORT Jan 1, 2013

Bombardier targets bus market entry

Canadian group plans trials of electric vehicles

From MANAGEMENT Jan 1, 2013

Happy to swim against the tide

Venture capital is vital to the growth of many tech companies but is it a failing industry?

From ENERGY Dec 30, 2012

Miners ready to take punt on rare earths

Investment hopes despite torrid year

From WORLD Dec 29, 2012

Quick learner earns his Pure reward

Imagination Technologies focuses on designing graphics chips

Dec 28, 2012

Winter vomiting bug affects over 1m

Norovirus activity is increasing early elsewhere in Europe and in Japan

From COMMENT Dec 27, 2012

In an economy not so far, far away

Will we see a system like ‘Star Trek’ or the dystopia of ‘Star Wars’? asks Izabella Kaminska

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