By Kate Kelland LONDON | Thu Feb 2, 2012 2:10pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibility to addiction is inherited but is also a flaw that can be overcome, scientists said on Thursday. Researchers who scanned the brains of 50 pairs of [...]
Researchers have "cloaked" a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time. Prior metamaterial approaches sidestep these effects simply by channelling light around an object, using carefully designed structures that bounce light in a prescribed way, like a pinball machine. By contrast, plasmonic materials can be designed to have effects on [...]
Scotland is in danger of losing its place at the forefront of research into wave and tidal energy because of high connection charges, it has been warned. This compares with an £11m subsidy if they were sited off the south west coast of England. Scottish Renewables chief executive Niall Stuart said: "Scotland has long been [...]