Chris Rapley, the new director of the Science Museum, is on a mission to reignite the passion for discovery and celebrate the discipline’s unsung heroes. Jon Excell reports

Britain’s hard-pressed oil and gas industry received a boost in Parliament today when George Osborne announced £1.3bn worth of measures to support the industry.

Research on carbon capture in the UK is focusing on the abilities of various carbon-based materials to absorb the carbon dioxide from flue gases. Sam Shead reports

Features editorBosch gave us a glimpse into the future of autonomous and electrified cars, but are the internal combustion engine’s best days still to come?

Gas-analysis technology developed for ESA’s Rosetta mission is being converted to diagnose tuberculosis in remote parts of Africa. Stuart Nathan reports

Tore Amundsen’s efforts to put Norway at the forefront of the global CCS industry contain some valuable lessons for the UK, Stephen Harris reports

Dr Caroline Hargrove, CTO of McLaren Applied Technologies, talks to Jon Excell about how motor racing is helping other sectors modernise

As a competition is launched to inspire super-efficient vehicles, designers are finding that the development of electric cars is becoming a lot more feasible. Jon Excell reports

The speed and standard at which driverless vehicles and the supporting infrastructure are developed and deployed will be one of the tests for making the world’s leading cities fit for future mobility...

Zero-carbon aircraft manufacturer Vertical Aerospace is drawing on expertise honed on the race track in a bid to revolutionise urban air mobility writes Melissa Bradshaw