The race to meet net zero is hotting up as the development of alternatives to battery power start to come online. Tinius Olsen is currently supporting one of them alongside the UK’s leading developer...
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have received a grant to develop large-scale "swarms" of robots that could work together to thoroughly search large areas of ground and sky.
The Met Office is set to get a new £1.2bn supercomputer that it says will help the UK to better prepare for extreme weather events like the current flooding caused by Storm Dennis.
In what is claimed to be the first study of its kind, hotel guests at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm in Sweden are participating in tests allowing them to check in and out of their rooms using...
The car industry has been boosted by scrappage schemes which defied the doubters by proving successful, but if the recession really is coming to an end, this is where we’ll start to see the evidence.
Features editorThe Formula E electric motor racing series has ambitious goals to help the development of practical electric vehicles. But the contributors to the series need to remember that, first...
Researchers claim to have produced the world’s fastest thin-film organic transistors that have the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television screens and similar...
A pain-free home glaucoma test, a handheld scanner to identify plastics for recycling, and a device to stem blood from knife wounds have all been named winner of the James Dyson Award.
The government needs to create better incentives for businesses to invest or the UK risks falling behind other countries and losing out on the benefits from investment in research and development.
A senior lecturer from Aberdeen University’s School of Engineering has been awarded funding of £718,000 from the European Research Council to develop software to support the design and management of a...
