A full-scale demonstrator of what is claimed to be the first tidal-stream-energy device for estuaries is to be deployed in the Humber Estuary.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is to sell the Angel Trains Group to an investment consortium led by Babcock & Brown for £3.6bn.

NASA is soliciting proposals for studies designed to identify advanced vehicle concepts and enabling technologies for commercial airliners to fly more economically, quieter and less polluting by 2025.

Northern Ireland-based engineering company FG Wilson is set to receive a £47 million investment boost to research and manufacture diesel and natural gas powered electrical generators.

Rensselaer Polytechnic researchers are to develop 3D virtual patient models that may eventually help radiologists to use safer doses of radiation when treating patients.

URS Corporation is to conduct a feasibility study to examine if tidal flows in San Francisco Bay can be tapped as a source of energy.

Middlesex University academics have helped to develop a mathematical formula that enables images to be built up from Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) scans.

Prof Klaus Muller-Dethlefs, director of the newly-opened Photon Science Institute, hopes to put UK research into this field on to the world map. Christopher Sell reports.

With new technologies continuously emerging and evolving, companies need to be prepared to innovate and meet the challenge, says Neil Davidson, group vice president, EMEA and APAC, Deltek.

Researchers have combined iron, copper, and an LED to demonstrate a low-cost technique that could be key to distributing hydrogen,