Research Councils UK has unveiled details of seven knowledge transfer schemes designed to help researchers and businesses find funding.

Pactiv Corporation is to sell all of its North American and European protective and flexible packaging businesses for $530 million.

A group of three UK universities are spearheading efforts to create more intelligent conversation-recognition and speech-synthesis systems.

Baumer’s TE1 range offers a temperature measurement system which measures process temperatures from -50 up to 250°C.

The Co-operative Group and ScottishPower are teaming up to build a 16MW windfarm at Coldham in Cambridgeshire.

A product designed by two entrepreneurial medical graduates could soon be helping to reduce the spread of MRSA.

Using algae to remove phosphorus from sewage could simultaneously remove a problem and create a resource, say Bath University researchers

Rolls-Royce has announced its intention to acquire Scandinavian Electric Holding, a supplier of packages for marine propulsion systems.

Scientists in the US have developed self-cleaning solar panels based on technology developed for space missions to Mars.

Entrepreneurs have the chance to win prizes totalling €1m (£860,000) in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition.