From the way we learn, to how our memories are made and stored, the workings of our brains depend on connections forged between billions of neurons, yet much about how our nervous system develops remains a mystery.
On 6 February 2014, 21 Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities projects were announced as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council investment in Big Data.
Future hearing aids could be adjusted by the wearer to remove background noise using new technology that could also be used to clean up and search YouTube videos.
Ambiguity in language poses the greatest challenge when it comes to training a computer to understand the written word. Now, new research aims to help computers find meaning.
A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by University of Cambridge researchers.
More than 1,000 people around the world have signed up to take part in the biggest ever public study of Android phone usage.
Scientists at Strangeways Research Laboratory are leading the search for the ‘genetic cards’ that determine an individual’s risk of cancer.
Computational biology is helping scientists to navigate through the data deluge generated from the analysis of cancer genomes.
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