science and technology in photos
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe?
Photo Unesco itself has acknowledged the technological hole in the list of cultural and natural treasures and this year set a framework for creating future World Heritage Sites to mark advances in... [13 Nov 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The Globe of Science and Innovation is made from five species of tree. Using existing tape technology the room would be full up within 10 years. A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo Alan Turing - widely seen as the father of modern computer science - worked at the NPL in the 1940s after his time at Bletchley Park where he was involved in cracking German code during World War II. Prince Philip (left)... [06 Aug 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo Near the Oak Ridge supercomputer facility is this giant display, known as Everest, or Exploratory Visualisation Environment for Research in Science and Technology. Pictured here is one... [14 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The gleaming, primary colours... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo Merging the Met Office's unparalleled climate science expertise with the exciting technology of Google Earth is a great way of bringing the impacts of a warming world to life. World-leading climate... [22 May 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The challenge is to create a... [06 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [01 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions. [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war
Photo Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies destined for the... [26 Mar 2008]
Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view
Photo One objective of the Morph project, says Tapani Ryhanen, head of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge UK lab, is its "combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider... [26 Feb 2008]
Photos of the year
Photo Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute silicon.com talked to Graham Linehan, writer and director of tech-flavoured sitcom The IT Crowd this October, to... [13 Dec 2007]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo One of the competitors, Team Lux showed off their car in London's Science Museum earlier this year. Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute Tim Ferguson... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - August 2007
Photo The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has showcased how sonar operators are trained to hunt enemy submarines. The technology simulates a high volume banking... [31 Aug 2007]
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