From COMMENT 5:53pm

We are not yet ready to simulate the brain

Europe’s billion-euro project is important but has an unrealistic goal, writes Gary Marcus

The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) or Naro, South Korea's space rocket is launched on the launch pad at Naro Space Centre in Goheung, south of Seoul ©Reuters From WORLD 9:49pm

South Korea successfully launches satellite

North Korea will view international acceptance of launch as ‘double standards’

A burnt auxiliary power unit battery removed from a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft ©Reuters From INDUSTRIALS Jan 30, 2013

Boeing 787 suppliers face revenue doubts

Japan industry to suffer if aircraft battery fault not found early

From MANAGEMENT Jan 28, 2013

The future of wealth management services

Guest Column: Booz and Company on how digitisation can help wealth management companies make money again

Graphene From COMMENT Jan 27, 2013

Graphene: Faster, stronger, bendier

The material may have many uses but its discoverers are warning not to expect an immediate revolution

Jan 27, 2013

Human brain and graphene projects win funding

Schemes are two flagships of European research for the next 10 years

Oliver Sacks ©Christopher Anderson / Magnum Pho From LIFE & ARTS Jan 26, 2013

Neuro visions

As he approaches 80 and reflects on his life as a pre-eminent neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks talks about hallucinations – drug-induced and otherwise

Jan 25, 2013

Glasgow chosen as model city of the future

City beats off 30 others to win £24m in government funding

Dentists Andrew Dawood and Susan Tanner ©Charlie Bibby From LIFE & ARTS Jan 25, 2013

3D printing shows its teeth

Dentists are using the technology to make precise models of patients’ faces, jaws and teeth, so as to plan procedures such as implants and facial surgery

Editorial from COMMENT Jan 25, 2013

Forever archived

DNA storage method could mean shift from files to phials

Jan 25, 2013

It’s light, Jim, but not as we know it

Scientists say ‘tractor beam’ allows light to manipulate objects

Jan 24, 2013

Facebook spending on lobbying soars

Google and Microsoft also boosted spending

Jan 23, 2013

Scientists look to DNA for data storage

Cambridge team is working on genetics-based system

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

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

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

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