Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve ever wanted to stay in a hovel that’s home to an antisocial green ogre – and, let’s face it, who hasn’t? – now might finally be your chance. Airbnb has recreated the swampy home from the Shrek movies in the Scottish Highlands.Continue Reading… Continue reading Sleep like an ogre in Airbnb’s Shrek Swamp
Scotland’s AWS Energy has reported results some 20% better than predicted for its Archimedes Waveswing, a prototype wave energy generator that’s been undergoing ocean-based testing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney for the last six … Continue reading “Telescoping can” wave energy device beats test predictions by 20%
Orbex has publicly unveiled the full-scale prototype of its reusable Prime rocket on its pad at Space Hub Sutherland in northern Scotland, where the first-ever vertical launch of a satellite from UK soil is set to be carried out in the coming months.Co… Continue reading Orbex unveils the UK’s first vertically-launched orbital rocket
The UK will get its first full-size autonomous bus service this summer, if final road testing that begins in the next two weeks goes according to plan. Known as Project …read more Continue reading Automate the Freight: Autonomous Buses to Start Operation in UK
Fusion Processing has announced that an autonomous public transport project will start on-road testing this week, en route to beginning a new 14-mile pilot service ferrying passengers across a long-span suspension bridge in Scotland later this year.Con… Continue reading First full-size autonomous passenger bus in the UK begins on-road testing
The RansomEXX ransomware gang has seen fit to publish on the dark web 12GB of data stolen from SAMH, including unredacted photographs of individuals’ driving licences, passports, personal information such as volunteers’ home addresses and phone numbers… Continue reading Scottish mental health charity “devastated” by heartless RansomEXX ransomware attack
Scientists have discovered the fossil of what may be the earliest multicellular animal ever found. Dating back a billion years, the microscopic fossil contains two distinct cell types, potentially making it an ancestor to advanced animals.Continue Read… Continue reading Billion-year old fossil may be first multicellular animal
Scotland’s Orbital Marine Power (formerly Scotrenewables) has completed the build on what it claims will be the world’s most powerful operational tidal turbine. It’s now on its way to the Orkney Islands, where it’ll have a chance to prove its worth con… Continue reading Orbital launches O2, the “most powerful tidal turbine in the world”
It’s just two days since former SNP leader Alex Salmond launched a brand new political party to campaign for an independent Scotland.
And already it has suffered a data breach. Continue reading Alex Salmond’s Alba party website leaks data in IDOR foul-up
Nova Innovation has announced the installation of the first electric vehicle charge point powered by tidal energy, which is located on the island of Yell in the Shetlands.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Tidal Energy, Scotland, Electric V… Continue reading First tidal-powered EV charging point installed in Shetland Islands