Qinetiq has been awarded a £1.9m contract by the UK Ministry of Defence Research Acquisition Organisation to assess the vulnerability of components within military equipment to naturally occurring...

Additionally, the nodes will be designed to disconnect and reconnect to different struts. If a meteoroid or rough landing punches a hole in the swarm, the system can heal itself by rejoining undamaged...

A new form of paper with the built-in ability to fight disease-causing bacteria could have applications ranging from anti-bacterial bandages to food packaging that keeps food fresher for longer.

Essential oils could kill the deadly MRSA hospital ’superbug’, according to scientists at Brighton University.

More than 70 years after Bugatti’s only aircraft was hidden from the Nazis a painstaking reproduction of this never-flown plane is poised to take to the skies. Jon Excell reports

North Carolina State University is leading a nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered health monitoring sensors and devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the...

Despite technological advances fluid-powered hydraulics systems are still the best way to lift and manoeuvre large, heavy objects, from aircraft parts to film industry special effects, says Colin...

Up to 2,800 jobs are to be lost at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot facility as the company embarks on investing £1.25bn into electric arc furnace technology at the site.

Google is to acquire the mobile phone division of Motorola in a deal worth $12.5bn (£7.63bn).

The UK needs a step change in its pace of emissions reduction to meet CO2 budgets, the Committee on Climate Change has said in its first annual report to parliament.