A report has urged sports regulators to work more closely with engineers to prepare for the next wave of technological advances.

Scientists in the US have developed a metal-organic coating that can be applied to fabrics and used to detect and neutralise toxic compounds.

Forgemasters say they are aiming to produce twelve of these ingots a year, with the next due to be cast in February 2008..

Student athletes at Stanford University are to wear high-tech mouthguards equipped with pressure sensors to record impact data on the field of play.  

Swindon-based Sunstroom Energy Investments is attempting to raise more than €300m to fund the planned construction of a 50MW solar thermal electricity plant in Saucedilla, Spain.

Gulf Stream Marine is being assisted by Invest Northern Ireland to grow sales of its fibreglass leisure craft and associated equipment and services to global export markets.

Cambridge Broadband Networks has announced a contract with Gateway Communications to create the world’s largest point-to-multipoint microwave access network.

Vehicle safety technology has contributed significantly to reducing the number of deaths and injuries reported non British roads, according to the latest report from the Department for Transport

A scheme to bury a widened dual carriageway road beneath Salisbury Plain where it passes near to Stonehenge has been approved by the government

Chemists have found a way to make a rare mineral from waste glass that can then be used to clean up toxic heavy metals in the environment.