The Future of Public Transport is Fuelled by Hydrogen
The discoveries Irvine and Smith made regarding hydrogen fuel production have been vital to Scottish advances in sustainable public transport.
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Technology aids marine mammal conservation and weather forecasting
New marine tracking technology has improved governmental, environmental and other organisations’ ability to monitor marine mammal species, allowing conservation of endangered species and greater insight into ocean…
The use of creative art for explaining organic semiconductors
Nedyalka Panova is an artist-in-residence in the School of Physics & Astronomy“. Her work explores the boundaries between art and science, organic and inorganic, natural, synthetic and manmade. Nedyalka works in…
Light Box – bringing together culture and science
Light Box celebrates light in all its aspects – solar, sacred, scientific, nourishing, and poetic. Produced as a result of meetings between Professor Crawford and McBeath and contemporary physicists whose work centres…
Feeding the world
Half of all seafood consumed now comes from aquaculture. Aquaculture production has grown by 6.2% a year since 2000 and by 2012 it had reached 66.6 million tonnes worth U$144 billion. Less than 10% of production…
The Light touch…
Optical tweezers, miniscule forces that light exerts on micron-size particles, developed by researchers in the School of Physics and Astronomy, have empowered scientists to perform important studies on single…
English poetry goes digital
The study of Medieval and Renaissance English poetry conjures up images of quiet libraries and beautiful volumes, but researchers in the School of English are endeavouring to change this image.
CIRCA: Conversation support for people with dementia and their carers
CIRCA, Computer Interactive Reminiscence and Conversation Aid, is a novel touchscreen computer system designed to support conversation between people with dementia and their caregivers.
“Sticking plaster” treatment for skin cancer and acne
A wearable light source that can treat many skin cancers and acne has been invented by Professor Ifor Samuel (School of Physics and Astronomy) working with Professor James Ferguson (Ninewells Hospital, Dundee) in…
Animal-borne telemetry tags for conservation and weather forecasting
The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) Instrumentation Group, of the School of Biology, has designed, built and supplied about 400 telemetry tags per year since 2008, resulting in economic benefit to companies in the UK…