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.
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.
A clip-on device enables a user to give commands to their TV with gestures.
A pioneering new approach to city transport is being trialled in Genoa. Andrew Wade travelled to Italy to experience it up close.
Up to 3,000 jobs are to be created following ScottishPower Renewables’ decision to proceed with East Anglia ONE, a 714MW wind farm to be built 26 miles off the Suffolk coast.
Researchers at CSIRO are working with the Australian company VR TEK Operations to develop new technologies to reduce waste tyres to rubber powders.
Rice University scientists have discovered a new method to tune the light-induced vibrations of nanoparticles through slight alterations to the surface to which the particles are attached.
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have designed a lightweight, easy-to-conceal shirt-like garment to deliver life-saving shocks to patients experiencing serious heart problems.
