An innovative timber-concrete composite slab is being used in more and more buildings in Switzerland, after these passed the same strict fire safety standards as conventional concrete or steel buildings. The Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK) at ETH Zurich which is globally renowned for conducting large scale fire tests. These fire tests allow researchers to…
British born, Nicola Ann Spaldin, FRS is Professor of Materials Theory at the ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics has been awarded € 100, 000 and the L’Oreal-UNESCO, For Women in Science prize for Europe for her revolutionary research in the field of material sciences. Nicola, a Cambridge graduate and a PhD…
Junior Doctor Adam Kay’s confessional indignities and joys of being a junior doctor in the UK National Health Service, based on diaries kept between 2004 and 2010. The moment you set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realised that there’s quite a lot they don’t teach you at medical school, as…
At the dawn of the new era, when science fiction is fast becoming reality as AI transforms, crime, war, justice, job and society to what it means to be human. Inspired by a visit to London’s Science Museum in 2014, Max Tegmark, the American Physicist and professor of Physics at MIT and the co-founder of…
Investor interest in UK property remains strong despite uncertainly cerated by Brexit The biggest sale deal of a single building in the UK since 2014, when the HSBC tower in Canary Wharf was sold to Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund for £1.18bn. The “Cheesegrater” the 224m, tallest building in the City of London, has been sold…
A 36- vehicle pileup which occurred at 7:45 am (10:45GMT) when a trailer truck carrying ink collided with another trailer carrying scrap metal and caught fire, at the motorway bridge 70 feet above, in the City of São Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday30th August 2017. However, speeding vehicles clocking 50mph behind could not stop in time…
Student Tution fees protest rally turned nasty as the authorities have to resort to water cannon in Santiago Los Heros in Chile today. Around 1000 students protested´peacefully to demonstrate against college fees.
A single Tweet from Trump wipes billions off Amazon’s value, after saying “ Doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the US are being hurt – many jobs being lost”. The online retail giant’s shares fell 1.2 per cent ahead of the opening bell after Trump’s comments. However, shares later…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating India’s 70th Indpendence Day, addressed the crowd from the ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi and said “ only hugs could solve the problems of the territory which often sees clashes between protesters and Indian security forces”. and has appealed to the nation to stand together with families of…
Jason Wouhra, Director at East End Foods, employed a unique strategy to turna thriving family spice business into a £1 bn global corporate organisation, with a £ 200m-turnover. His fairy tale story from a small family corner shop business to UK’s leading supplier of spices. The success of their 40-year-old company, is soley due to…