Musicians from Bristol-based band Massive Attack are working with climate researchers to examine the impact of the music industry on the environment.  

Efforts to build the Liberty Lifter - an X-plane that demonstrates heavy-air-lift capability from the sea - is progressing toward a preliminary design.

Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed a handheld sensor that tests perspiration for cortisol, claimed to provide results in eight minutes.

Waste heat from electronics can be converted into reusable energy more efficiently thanks to a collaboration between the University of Texas at Dallas and Texas Instruments.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) LISA Pathfinder has successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, beginning its mission to observe gravitational waves from space.

Surface Transforms has increased its revenue by 34 per cent to £679,284 following a number of significant contract wins for its carbon fibre reinforced ceramic composite materials.

Engineers in the US have developed a flexible cardiac implant that could be used to diagnose and treat arrhythmia and other heart problems.

Forensic scientists at Leicester University have announced a breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened.

A system that harvests the entire spectrum of the sun’s light could help provide the Earth’s growing population with its basic needs, according to researchers from Purdue University.

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has announced £8m worth of government investment into new plastic electronics technologies to accompany the launch of a National Strategy for Plastic Electronics.