BAE Systems, Babcock and Atlas Elektronik UK have each been awarded £5 million to develop their plans for the new Type 31e frigate, with the winner of the contract to be decided by the end of 2019.

Flexible and robust organic photovoltaics could be a step closer to mainstream use after researchers developed a way to deposit a thin gold electrode layer directly onto plastic cells.

Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit nanostructured films on various surfaces, a process that may first be used to produce coatings for eyeglasses.

Formosa Plastics is to spend more than $10m on pollution controls to address air, water and hazardous waste violations at two petrochemical plants in Point Comfort, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Stadco is to establish the first dedicated body-in-white stampings and assembly facility in Russia.

Researchers have shown that smartphones can detect blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70 per cent, which is the lowest recommended value that pulse oximeters should be able to measure.

A robot bee that can crash into walls and collide with other objects without being damaged is believed to be the first microrobot powered by soft actuators to achieve controlled flight.

A new national support centre for manufacturers is set to open this summer in Lancashire.

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...