Welcome to the (snow-filled) jungle

­Hit the road with the Tech Up team to explore what the city of Novosibirsk has to offer. Particle physicists push the boundaries of modern science to recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. A purpose-built hi-tech park gives innovative startups a helping hand in making their ideas reality. There's nowhere to hide from the latest in thermal imaging technology. And it's not...

Year-end innovations

­Carbon-based fibers look to be the future of construction and high-tech manufacturing: the Composite Holding Company bids to bring production of the super-strong, ultra-lightweight carbon material to Russia. A research institute in Dimitrovgrad retools to stave off a coming shortage in the world's most important diagnostic radioactive isotope. A new waste-to-energy plant is up and running,...

The Future of Food

­With the world population now topping 7 billion, how we'll feed our swelling numbers is of vital importance. Come explore some novel ways that science can help close the coming food gap. Artificial food, cryogenic freezing and genetic engineering are all on the list of possible solutions; and the technologies behind them all are being developed in Russia. The Tech Up team even has its own...

October Tech breakthroughs

­The Rusnanotech Forum comes to Moscow. Plastic Logic and Rusnano debut a new electronic textbook that they hope will replace traditional school books. Scientists in Italy announced that tiny subatomic particles – neutrinos – appear to have traveled faster than the speed of light. Russian physicists in Dubna are part of the Opera Collaboration responsible for the finding. If true, the...

New, clear energy

­With rising demand for energy, especially electricity, the world is in need of new resources. Fossil fuels produce harmful carbon emissions and green technology may never be able to provide a reliable source of renewable energy. Despite ongoing concerns about the safety of nuclear power, it's likely going to play an increasingly large role in satisfying our needs. Several projects being...

August Technology Update

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Tech From Tomsk: Miracle Bandages, Ultra-Efficient Gears, and the Foundation of 4G

Welcome to the Future! Is Tomsk set to be Siberia's tech hub? Three time zones and some 3,000km from Russia's capital, a city of students and scientists hosts a major annual innovation forum. And it doesn't stop there – a cluster of cutting-edge businesses is building around a tech-targeted Special Economic Zone. Microelectronics are reinventing radar systems and building the backbone for...

Russia's rotors ready to roll

­HeliRussia showcases the world's best. The Mi-38 finally arrives to master the mid-size market, with "glass cockpit" avionics and a take-your-pick menu of new Canadian and Russian engines. Gyroscope-based Inertial Navigation Systems keeps aviation on an even keel. Old school radar air-traffic systems go digital. And the lightweight Ansat is the helicopter jack-of-all-trades. Russia's rotors...

High-tech Tatarstan

­Welcome to the future, where a Russian republic blends historic diversity with economic diversification, petrochemical polymers replace the old pump and pass oil economy, traditional aviation refocuses on unmanned drones, and the government beats bureaucratic lines by going online – Tatarstan at the heart of Russian innovation, on Technology Update. We’ve got the future covered.

Google in Gagarin's footsteps? The new face of the space race

­Welcome to the Future! April 12, 2011 will mark 50 years since Yuri Gagarin broke through the Earth's atmosphere to become the first man in space. Within a decade, man had been to the moon. But did the space race die with the Cold War? Technology Update finds a rebirth in science and engineering that's reaching for the stars. New space centers are opening with new launchers to fit. Mars' moon...