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.
Subsea solutions provider to the oil and gas industry Hallin Marine has won a £10m contract to supply Remote Operated Vehicles to Swiss-based Allseas Group
A joint £30m initiative has been launched to find biomedical engineering solutions to challenging healthcare problems.
The UK Space Agency has awarded £18m of European Space Agency (ESA) funding to OneWeb, a satellite startup that plans to use hundreds of satellites to provide broadband connectivity to every corner of...
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.
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.
