A low-cost laser energy weapon has been fired from a British Army combat vehicle for the first time in trials at Dstl’s range in Porton Down.

Only six per cent of UK businesses are responsible for the majority of job creation and prosperity, according the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

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The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Wellcome Trust are jointly funding four new centres of excellence in medical engineering.

The long march toward a low carbon future has this week taken another twist with airports at the centre of a government-funded study.

Thales is collaborating with Sports & Wellbeing Analytics (SWA), exploring how SWA’s PROTECHT technology - used in rugby - could monitor military injuries.

Japanese scientists have cracked the problem of ‘optical clearing’ — making biological samples transparent and preserving them without damaging their structure