| 3GSM World Congress Annual European event covering 2G and 3G technologies. http://www.3gsmworldcongress.com/ |
| IT&T Annual Conference Annual Irish gathering for academic and industrial sector telecommunications researchers. Includes upcoming conference details, past conference archives, and background. http://www.ittconference.com/ |
| Supercomm Annual exhibition and conference for communication service providers and private network managers. Registration, exhibits, speaker list, and archives available. http://www.supercommnews.com/ |
| Telecommunications Policy Research Conference Annual forum for policy makers and academic researchers interested in telecom issues. Offers reading room, current conference details, and archives. http://www.tprc.org/ |
Scientists have read the minds of healthy volunteers using a brain scanner to detect what they were thinking. By placing the volunteers in the scanner after they had been shown three film clips, the researchers were able to tell which clip they were recalling.
It weighs about 3lb, has the consistency and appearance of cold porridge and is famous for being the most complex object in the known universe. The human brain is more than an organ: it houses all our thoughts, memories and emotions, and is responsible for that most human of all traits, consciousness.
The world's single most complicated and expensive scientific experiment, designed to discover the "God particle" and recreate the conditions that existed at the dawn of creation, will be switched off for a year to correct a design problem that could break it apart if it ran on full power.
Doctors hailed a landmark in the advance of personalised medicine yesterday with the first case in which the sequencing of a patient's complete genome revealed the genetic cause of his disease.
Scientists are hopeful of finding out more about ancient birds and why they died out after extracting DNA from a fossilised elephant bird egg.
A dozen shipwrecks that date back centuries – some of them unusually well preserved – have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany.
