About half the world’s population uses the internet. How do we take advantage of this digital connectivity and also protect society from risk?

Mother and child

On the origin of (robot) species

12 Aug 2015
Researchers have observed the process of evolution by natural selection at work in robots, by constructing a ‘mother’ robot that can design, build and...
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Footprints

How to read a digital footprint

23 Jun 2015
Researchers are using social media data to build a picture of the personalities of millions, changing core ideas of how psychological profiling works...
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Whistle while you work

Mining for Corruption

15 Jun 2015
Researchers have developed a new technique that trawls the enormous amounts of public procurement data now available across the EU to highlight...
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DNA/protein function finder from the Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute, emblebi and YourGenome

The Big Dating Game

09 Jun 2015
When is a rare disease not a rare disease? The answer: when big data gets involved. An ambitious new research project aims to show patients that they...
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