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Cutting the cord - Wireless electricity

First came cordless phones, then wireless internet. The next step to making our lives truly mobile is getting rid of the tangles of power cables lurking in our homes.
SODIS - A place in the sun

Clean water is one of the world’s scarcest resources. Could it finally be time to shine for solar disinfection?
Boobs, Babes and Blood

For the average physicist, you might expect typical study subjects to include atoms or distant galaxies. But the researchers in UCL's medical physics department are far from average.
Wanted: Your computer's spare time

What are you doing this weekend? How about an afternoon browsing for alien life, then a quick hunt for gravitational waves, followed perhaps by a spot of climate predicting?
HiPER power

Nuclear fusion, the reaction that burns at the centre of the Sun, could provide safe, carbon free energy and solve the global energy crisis. The catch? Nobody’s quite worked out the finer detail of how to tame fusion reactions here on Earth.