A trailblazing multi-disciplinary engineering research project is seeking ways to help structures and systems stand up to the stresses of earthquakes.

Cornell researchers hope to learn how certain bacteria that break down pollutants do their job and then to make them more effective.

The UK’s ability to develop innovative new hydrogen technologies will falter if it fails to produce more graduates specialising in renewable technologies.

Researchers at Bradford University are working on a two-year project to examine the extent to which sensory feedback affects the performance of artificial limbs.

Researchers in the US are proposing a new centre to design technologies that will be needed to cool advanced computer chips.

At Maintec 2006 – the UK’s leading maintenance exhibition, visitors to the David Brown stand were given the chance to win a specially engraved iPod nano

The UK Research Councils’ SUPERGEN programme has launched a £5m UK initiative to support the development of technology to produce hydrogen energy

Applying energy-saving technologies to buildings would bring the biggest single reduction in the CO2 emissions of major cities, according to a major new study

A European taskforce has been set up to investigate how to design the next generation of computer memories, with researchers at Glasgow University playing a key role.

Emergency crews could be given technology to allow them to communicate and locate each other in smoke-filled or partially collapsed buildings, and even detectsurvivors by their breathing.