The scattering of light through clouds has inspired a research team led by physicists at Glasgow University to discover a new way of controlling and guiding light.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has teamed up with Finance South East to create a two-year pilot aimed at improving collaboration between universities and industry.
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Up to half of all medication is not taken in the way it is prescribed, meaning patients do not receive the correct treatment and expensive drugs are wasted.
MacRobert Award Chair of Judges Professor Sir Richard Friend FREng FRS looks at what the UK can do to avoid an innovation exodus
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has announced that it is to cease development of its proposed offshore wind farm 2km off the coast of Kintyre in western Scotland.
Engineers have trained a robot to prepare, cook and plate an omelette that is flavoursome and edible, an advance demonstrating how machine learning can aid food optimisation.
Gordon Brown and transport secretary Andrew Adonis have disclosed that work will start immediately to electrify major parts of the UK rail network.
Advanced techniques that account for the beating of the heart or the movement of the lungs promise to revolutionise a range of invasive and non-invasive therapies
The University of the West of England is working with the Polytechnic and Technical School of Karlovac to set up a Centre of Excellence in Mechatronics in Croatia.