Ending Poverty - What Engineers Can Do

Interesting analysis in this TEDx talk from Professor James Trevelyan of the University of Western Australia.

Portuguese innovation

Alcohol-free wine: http://www.theportugalnews.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1156-1

Iconic toilet paper: http://shop.renovaonline.net/mall/departmentpage.cfm/Renova/_238934/1/Gift%2520Pack

Brain power study from the Champalimaud Foundation

Research which could lead to new methods of brain control of prostheses has been recently published in Nature. 

Lisbon researchers in Science magazine

José Feijó and his team have been getting quite a bit of attention recently for their work on the structure of pollen.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317141410.htm

Android gets around!

We first blogged about Android here in 2008.

There is a nice animation about subsequent developments  posted here.

The Pedro Nunes Institute in Coimbra has been winning awards

Voted  Best Science Based Incubator in 2010

The most recent  was awarded from the international Technopolicy Network at their annual conference in Liverpool in November 2010.
http://www.portugalglobal.pt/PT/PortugalNews/Paginas/NewDetail.aspx?newId={063F4BCA-F9CD-4BEF-805B-5200F787D878}

From IgNoble to Nobel

Interesting to see that André Geim, the scientist mentioned in one my first posts here for being awarded the Ignoble prize for improbable research, has now received the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on the properties of graphene. 

Here Geim explains how big business could prevent him from patenting graphene while here he talks about the serendipitous nature of the discovery.