EADS Astrium’s Spaceplane promises tourists a zero-gravity experience in one hop, returning to a conventional airport landing. Stuart Nathan reports
A 62-year-old seaplane has become the world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft, taking to the skies above Vancouver for its debut flight.
With biofuels about the only large-scale alternative to oil for cleaner transport, we must take advantage of the opportunities they offer, says Andris Piebalgs
Motion capture technology has been used in the UK to assess the accuracy of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technologies in football.
An international team led by the Johns Hopkins University has developed a prototype of what they claim to be the first fully integrated prosthetic arm.
A new study has found that up to two-thirds of UK homes could be fitted with heat pumps with no additional home upgrades required.
Ocean WaveMaster, which produces large-scale wave energy converters, has commissioned The Northern Energy Initiative to provide modelling support for its latest phase of work.
A team of informatics and engineering specialists at City University London has received £135,000 in funding for a three-year project to develop security measures for mobile banking.
Lancaster University researchers have developed a camera-like device that for the first time is able to image vortices in quantum liquids.
New apprenticeship and training courses to support the UK space sector are set for launch by MTC Training, the training division of the Manufacturing Technology Centre.
