6:47pm

Scientists look to DNA for data storage

Cambridge team is working on genetics-based system

12:04am

Facebook spending on lobbying soars

Google and Microsoft also boosted spending

The Future Laboratory Philip Delves Broughton Philip Delves Broughton from MANAGEMENT Jan 21, 2013

Soothsayers for corporate hire

Companies are looking to futurists to help them understand how new trends will affect their business

From MANAGEMENT Jan 18, 2013

Corporate IT falling short of potential

Data analytics one of top company IT priorities for 2013

A hyena eyes flamingos in a South African lake ©Corbis From LIFE & ARTS Jan 18, 2013

This rare GEM can model our world

Computer simulations of the world’s ecosystems could help predict climate change

From MARKETS Jan 17, 2013

Nasdaq merges units to broaden appeal

Bourse to link market technology and corporate services

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 worldÕs 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

Person in the news from COMMENT Jan 11, 2013

Paul Jacobs: smartphone king

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

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

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