Senior reporterOur final blog of 2012 looks back on the technology highlights of a momentous year for the magazine, its home city, and for our understanding of the solar system and the universe...

BASF has set up a research partnership with the University of Alabama to study the dissolution and processing of cellulose by means of ionic liquids.

3D technology could be ready to make the leap from the cinema to the living room if the business issues around 3D TV are addressed. Berenice Baker reports

A team led by Dr Peter Boait of De Montfort University has developed an intelligent heating control device as part of a £2.1m multidisciplinary Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...

Ford is carrying out tests on Directional Audio Alerts, a system that simulates sounds made by potential hazards, such as footsteps made by pedestrians or a ringing bell from an oncoming bicycle.

Researchers at Pittsburgh University have coaxed gold into nanowires as a way of creating an inexpensive material for detecting poisonous gases found in natural gas.