A team from Canada has been named international winner of the James Dyson Award for sKan, their inexpensive, handheld device to diagnose melanoma.
Magnetic nanoparticles have shown promise in treating cancer, but their effectiveness depends on being able to inject them directly into a tumour.
US researchers have developed a technique for making integrated circuits that are up to ten times more energy-efficient than those on the market today.
The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with industrial and academic partners to find ways of reusing batteries from electric vehicles.
The speed at which heat moves between two materials touching each other is an indicator of how strongly they are bonded to each other.
Set for launch later this summer, NASA's Mars 2020 mission will feature some of the most advanced technology ever to be taken into space. Jon Excell reports
United Utilities has been testing a robotic 3D printer in damp and icy conditions to ascertain whether items like manhole rings can be built outdoors in the winter.
Training body calls for more cash to avoid the shortfall of engineers that could threaten our energy new-build programme. Anh Nguyen reports
A magnetic tentacle robot could one day take tissue samples or deliver targeted cancer therapy to the smallest bronchial tubes in the lungs.
New research at Rice University shows how water makes it practical to form long graphene nanoribbons less than 10 nanometres wide.
