Tap water in the U.S. had the highest contamination rate of sites sampled actross the globe.

Invention uses paper strips similar to those in litmus tests to produce results in less than three hours.

European Court of Justice rules that a lower court should re-visit the Intel appeal against its $1.3bn 2009 fine for anti-competitive practices.

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Bridgetek has established a design centre on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The centre will complement the activities at its main development hub in Singapore. The team that has initially been recruited consists of almost equal proportions of engineers involved in software development and engineers carrying out IC verification tasks. The plan is to …

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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has pledged to make all its cars either fully electric or hybrid by 2020 in the automotive industry’s latest step towards dropping the internal combustion engine.

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Do people make a difference in history? They can certainly make things worse: Napoleon killed 5 million people, Hitler killed 60 million, Stalin killed 60 million, Mao killed 45 million. When you look at our political leaders today none seem to be as malevolent as that  lot. So when we are led to believe that …

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Most R&D triumphs owe at least as much to serendipity as to planning and foresight, writes Josh Brooks.

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AI-enabled surveillance technology will inevitably be developed, so we must not delay preparations for its control, writes Richard Wilson.

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Spectrum’s AWG is helping the University of Tokyo create world’s highest indoor magnetic fields, writes Greg Tate

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High vertical resolution analogue-to-digital converters provide the signal detail for everyday devices, writes Andreas Grimm of Rohde & Schwarz.

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