NASA has signed an agreement with Indian Space Research Organisation to have two scientific instruments aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission to the moon.

Rolls-Royce is to shed 9,000 positions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic that has all but grounded the civil aviation industry.

BAE Systems’ latest results show a sales increase of nine per cent to £10.6bn and a corresponding percentage point rise in the dividend to 7p.

Rice University scientists developed a method to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that makes the material suitable for construction.

Volkswagen’s (VW’s) Autoeuropa factory in Palmela, Portugal, is using the same technology as that used to dock spacecraft to control its automobile assembly line.

A light-based sensing device that is worn like a plaster could lead to a non-invasive way for patients to monitor their health.

Over the course of the week ministers from around the world will attempt to ratify an agreement that took four years of negotiations to produce.

Two patients have regained partial eyesight thanks to the successful execution of a surgical procedure to embed retinal implants into them.

In a breakthrough for optical computing, researchers have used graphene to confine light to the smallest possible space, just one atom wide.