ESA’s Science Programme Committee (SPC), has awarded Astrium a €330m contract to build the Mercury probe BepiColombo, scheduled to begin its journey to Mercury in 2013.

Researchers have developed a low-cost way to enhance MEH-PPV’s ability to confine light, advancing efforts to use the polymer to convert electricity into laser light for use in photonic devices.

CC-Link communications has allowed a modest project to automate a compressor house to be expanded to embrace the whole of Yorkshire Fittings Leeds factory.

The use of plasmonic black metals could lead to a pathway to more efficient photovoltaics (PV) - the use of solar panels containing photovoltaic solar cells - to improve solar energy harvesting,...

Australian wave energy developer Carnegie Corporation is to receive funds of up to $250m from Investec Bank to demonstrate the viability of its wave technology.

Chancellor George Osborne’s pledge this week to support adult apprentices has been welcomed but one commentator warns that employers need to be supported to take them on.

A joint £30m initiative has been launched to find biomedical engineering solutions to challenging healthcare problems.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Airbus two studies to design key components of a mission to collect Martian soil and return it to Earth.

US-based V.i. Laboratories has come with a new way to allow software makers to track, reduce and recover lost revenue due to piracy.

BT has announced a programme worth around £1.5bn to roll out fibre-based, super-fast broadband to up to 10 million homes by 2012.