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Automotive

Ricardo, Cummins and BorgWarner team up on hydrogen engine

A specimen of ‘fusion grade’ silicon carbide composite made by KF in Japan, being handed over to UKAEA for experimentation. L-R: Dr Alex Leide (UKAEA), Dr Max Rigby-Bell (UKAEA), George Clark (UKAEA), Dr James Wade-Zhu (UKAEA), Andy Wilson (Kyoto Fusioneering), Vojna Ngjeqari (Kyoto Fusioneering)
Nuclear

UKAEA teams up with Kyoto Fusioneering

Engineers at the Darkov mine in the Czech Republic
Energy & environment

Gravitricity scores Czech mate for ‘virtual power plants’

Defence & security

Aerial AI project aims to save lives on the battlefield

Illustration of a chaotic-cavity surface-emitting laser array. This new class of laser array combines the advantages of chaotic cavities and the surface-emission configuration to enable high-quality illumination and high-speed communication
Electronics

Reduced speckle shows promise for illumination and holography

PhD candidate Zahra Rahemtulla with the prototype over sock
Electronics

E-textile smart sock can alert older people to the risk of falls

An ultra-thin coating of zinc oxide nanocrystals can be sprayed onto flexible substrates, such as plastic, that are resilient to flexing and bending
Materials

Zinc oxide nanomaterial shows promise as spray-on electronic component

Nuclear

New study on borehole disposal for nuclear waste

Stena Bulk’s Stena Impero
Energy & environment

Project set to instal and test carbon capture and storage on oil tanker

Medical & healthcare

Wearable detects and monitors muscle atrophy

Medical & healthcare

Technique lights up tumours for more accurate surgery

Mock-up of the main vessels of U-Battery’s advanced modular reactor (AMR). U-Battery is a high-temperature gas-cooled AMR, which can be deployed quickly to provide a scaleable output of 10MW thermal, of which up to 4MW could be delivered as electricity
Energy & environment

Urenco leaves U-Battery modular reactor project