[ad_1] The Institute reviewed research papers published between 2013 and 2015. The country with the largest proportion of highly cited scientific research papers is the USA which has 28.5% of the total. Second comes China with 15.4% and third comes the UK with 6.2%. Japan comes ninth – down from 7th in last year’s survey.Read more about UK 3rd in the world for R&D[…]

[ad_1] If we’re being completely honest, it’s not been the best of years for Android Wear, despite the long-awaited arrival of Android Wear 2.0 – a delayed roll-out and a lack of flagship smartwatch launches means Google’s wrist-based OS is lagging behind the Apple Watch. Now there’s another problem for Android Wear users to dealRead more about Android Wear users are having problems with Google Assistant[…]

[ad_1] In what is said to be its largest ever underwater defence deal, India has initiated the process to acquire six new submarines, which are seen as crucial to counter China’s growing undersea prowess. As part of the long-delayed deal, India’s Ministry of Defence has issued the Request For Information (RFI) to Russia, France, Germany,Read more about #India buys six stealth submarines – an annotated infographic[…]

[ad_1] What were the chances, back in in 1977, that two little Voyager probes would be able to survive the perils of travelling through our solar system and continue to function usefully for 40 years (or more)? It’s too easy to be blasé about space exploration and all that has been achieved since the second half ofRead more about Voyager craft, turning forty, still exploring…[…]

[ad_1] All eyes are on the next super-sized smartphone that Samsung’s planning to unveil, but we may well see a new fitness tracker device alongside it later this month – reference to an as-yet-unannounced device called the Gear Fit Pro 2 has appeared on Samsung’s website. A successor to the Gear Fit 2 then? TheRead more about Samsung could unveil a Gear Fit Pro 2 alongside the Note 8[…]

[ad_1] “The idea of adding nano-particles to increase LED efficiency is not new, but previous efforts to incorporate them have been impractical for large-scale manufacturing,” said the University. “They focused on pricey metals like silver, gold and platinum. Furthermore, there was no cost-effective way to incorporate particles below the surface.” The researchers worked with galliumRead more about Simple surface nano-particles could improve LEDs[…]