Efforts to shift from oil-based to biomass-based plastics are increasing as companies look for ways to help protect the environment.

Texas team develops hydrogel films that can be programmed to expand and shrink to perform complex three-dimensional movements and functions, similar to muscles

Alstom has been awarded contracts to supply trains to Paris’ transport authority and to construct a 465MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Argentina.

A NASA technologist is to develop a high-tech covering that would enable robots to sense their environment and react to it.

Graphene could become essential to efficient and environmentally sound oil production, according to Rice University researchers.

Efforts to eliminate medical textile waste are advancing in Cornwall where a new modular laundry system is making it easier to for hospitals to use reusable PPE.

Governments need to take more decisive and coordinated action to reduce carbon emissions, according to a report by the Carbon Disclosure Project and AEA Technology.

Two companies have joined forces to develop a system to solve the problem of DVD theft.

Scientists at Nottingham University are looking at ways to use the waste from bananas, which is usually left to rot as waste, to produce fuel.

£60m of UK government funding is to be provided to help overhaul the infrastructure of Britain’s ports to support the manufacture of offshore wind turbines.