Pilkington has informed the Japanese glass giant Nippon Sheet Glass that its proposed offer to buy the company falls materially short of a price which its board was prepared to recommend.
Information about the condition of battlefield casualties could be improved by ATRACT, a project led by Edge Hill University to develop an AI-enabled autonomous triage drone.
A team from Lyon University, Nottingham University, Ghent University and Leeds University, have developed a sensor that allows the plant hormone, auxin, to be visualised in plant tissues.
A silicon coating made with precisely designed silicon pillars has been developed for glass lenses to counteract the effects of light dispersion.
By the summer of 2007, a team of scientists at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, intends to demonstrate a technology that combines satellite attitude control and energy storage.
An autonomous Mars Helicopter is set to form part of Nasa’s next mission to the red planet, scheduled to launch in July 2020.
Satellite navigation technology combined with MP3 players could help help people find their way around cities.
A new pellet-fuelled cookstove has been found to reduce harmful air pollutants by around 90 per cent, an advance that could prevent millions of premature deaths.
A 20-minute non-invasive procedure that uses the same amount of radiation as a dental X-ray could offer patients with a blinding disease a new treatment option.
An aero-elastic pressure sensor developed by a team in Singapore could transform minimally-invasive surgery techniques by enabling tactile feedback for surgeons it is claimed.
