More than 50 airports across Norway and Sweden are set to participate in a pilot project to test the feasibility of hydrogen-powered regional flight in Scandinavia.

In the future, drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution discharged out of their vehicle's exhausts.

While most companies develop concept cars to test commercial waters, Frank Rinderknecht of Swiss design house Rinspeed prefers to let his imagination run riot.

Carbon nanotube-based fibres invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, according to new research.

Small and medium-sized manufacturers are starting to benefit from the relative weakness of Sterling, with overseas orders stabilising after seven quarters of decline, according to the CBI.

Uncertainty is stopping businesses and local authorities from preparing for the changes needed to meet UK waste recycling ambitions, according to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report.

UK researchers have developed a new test to diagnose TB and picked up a £10,000 award to progress the idea further.

Doosan Babcock Energy is to start a new project to demonstrate its Oxyfuel technology for carbon capture on coal-fired power plants.

Jaguar Land Rover is to begin selling its range of saloon cars and sports utility vehicles to the Indian market later in 2009.

Catalyx Nanotech is to install plants at landfills in California to convert the methane gas produced there into elemental graphitic carbon and hydrogen.