Centrica has secured interests in three exploration licences to drill for gas in the coal beds of south Wales.

Investec Bank and CSIRO-spinout Windlab Systems are proposing to develop a massive wind farm in northeastern Australia.

GE Water & Process Technologies is to design and construct a $220 million reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant in South Africa.

The Engineering Council UK sets up an international register to provide skills recognition when working abroad. Anh Nguyen reports.

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have devised a way to improve the security of radio-frequency identification tags.

Two teams from the University of Manchester are to share a £70,000 prize for novel applications of graphene.

A multi-electrode stimulation and recording probe recently developed by IMEC could be used to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s.

A researcher at ORNL has discovered a method to achieve spontaneous ignition and sustained combustion at room temperature.

The twin challenges of green engineering are to measure it and then fix it, says National Instruments

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