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New millimetre wave radar can identify small drones with 99.9% accuracy

Advances in artificial intelligence, sensor technology and automation have propelled drones into mainstream use. But as they become more…

Dec 10

New millimetre wave radar can identify small drones with 99.9% accuracy

Dec 10

NeuWave Technologies achieves 60x more accurate wave forecasts for offshore wind

As a PhD student in oceanography at The University of Manchester, Jana Stella set out to make a 100-year wave prediction for the entire…

Oct 28

NeuWave Technologies achieves 60x more accurate wave forecasts for offshore wind

Oct 28

Cambridge startup unveils new tool to accelerate chip manufacturing from weeks to hours

Halfway through her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Teja Potocnik began to regret her focus on nanoelectronics.

Sep 23

Cambridge startup unveils new tool to accelerate chip manufacturing from weeks to hours

Sep 23

This bacteria-powered battery can generate electricity from soil

Scientists at the University of Bath have developed affordable technology that harvests electrons produced by bacteria in soil and turns…

Jun 24

This bacteria-powered battery can generate electricity from soil

Jun 24

PhD founders have two superpowers: Lessons from Holistic AI’s Emre Kazim

Emre Kazim is one half of leading AI governance startup Holistic AI. Incubated at Conception X four years ago, the team is based between…

Apr 29

PhD founders have two superpowers: Lessons from Holistic AI’s Emre Kazim

Apr 29

New at-home test kit could help you detect cancer earlier

It looks just like the lateral flow tests that rose to ubiquity during the Covid-19 pandemic, and you might soon be able to buy it online…

Mar 25

New at-home test kit could help you detect cancer earlier

Mar 25

This PhD startup can turn wastewater into clean energy

Over the past five decades, nearly a quarter of the world’s carbon emissions has come from the energy needed to power industries — that’s…

Jan 22

This PhD startup can turn wastewater into clean energy

Jan 22

These lab-grown plants can clean up polluted land from heavy metals

When Franklin Keck harvested his first crop of lab-grown brassica plants two years into his PhD at Imperial College London, he realised he…

Nov 20, 2023

These lab-grown plants can clean up polluted land from heavy metals

Nov 20, 2023

This PhD student has built a chip to detect diseases earlier through AI

The first time Newcastle University PhD student Daniel Todd set out to build a chip from scratch that could help scientists detect diseases…

Sep 18, 2023

This PhD student has built a chip to detect diseases earlier through AI

Sep 18, 2023

This startup detects pain in premature babies and alerts clinicians in real time

About 1 in 13 babies in the UK is born prematurely — that’s almost 60,000 per year — and data shows the number is on the rise, according…

Jul 17, 2023

This startup detects pain in premature babies and alerts clinicians in real time

Jul 17, 2023

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Venture builders creating deeptech startups from leading research labs and PhD programmes around the UK. conceptionx.org

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