The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has called on the UK government to support investment into technology that would enable excess electricity to be stored in the gas grid in the form of...
Advanced haptic technology, which enables users to touch virtual objects in mid-air, could change the way we interact with everything from kitchen appliances to cars its UK inventors have claimed.
National Apprenticeship Week is a timely reminder of the many long-term benefits apprenticeships bring both directly to apprentices, but also to business operations, says Alice Willett, senior human...
Research carried out at Newcastle University has found that coriander and turmeric - spices traditionally used to flavour curries - can reduce the amount of methane produced by bacteria in a sheep’s...
A team of researchers is embarking on a project to assess the environmental impact of electric vehicle batteries during their lifecycle in order to better inform car designers and policymakers.
The 30-year concession to run Britain’s first high-speed railway, High Speed 1 has been awarded to a consortium comprising Borealis Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan for £2.1bn.
Alstom has won a €135m order to supply four 1000MW-Class steam turbine-generator packages for the conventional island of a new nuclear power plant to be built in northern China.
Energos plans to invest £40m in a renewable-energy facility at Knowsley Business Park in Merseyside that would convert leftover, non-recyclable waste into electricity for up to 10,000 homes.
The Hydraulic Filtration Division of Parker Hannifin, the world’slargest manufacturer of motion and control technology, hascomplementary products specifically designed to provide aneconomical and...
A report by the Institution of Civil Engineers claims the UK lost £1.8bn in 2007 due to a stop/start approach to planning essential infrastructure projects, and could be losing £8bn by 2015
