Doing business in space
Asteroid mining, Brexit impacts and the UK’s first spaceport
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Tracing the spread of cancer
Endomagnetics co-founder Simon Hattersley on starting a company that makes magnetic nanoparticle systems for detecting cancer
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Intellectual property
James McKenzie reflects on the importance of intellectual property, which is a key part of commercializing technology
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Outstanding in her field
Cather Simpson tells the "start-up story" of Engender, which uses photonics technology to sort bull sperm by sex for the dairy industry
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Machine vision with depth
Janelle Shane explains how improvements in lidar steering technologies could pay off for autonomous vehicles
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Growing pains for 3D printing
Peter Leibinger, chief technology officer at the industrial laser and machine-tool firm TRUMPF, discusses progress in additive manufacturing
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A better virtual experience
The vergence-accommodation conflict is one of the thorniest problems in virtual reality optics. Margaret Harris assesses strategies for tackling it
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In pursuit of the purest quartz
From a PhD in semiconductor physics to head of Quartz Products at Airbus Defence and Space, Richard Syme looks back at a long and enjoyable career
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Four ways to fund a start-up
Companies seeking to transform innovative materials into products have a range of options, writes Matthew Cohen of venture-capital firm Pangaea Ventures
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An airborne solution for off-grid energy
Aircraft that harvest energy from the wind offer a breath of fresh air at the IDTechEx conference in Berlin
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