A pilot project from Williams Racing and Portsmouth University claims to have ‘revolutionised’ the way Formula 1 racing seats can be designed using biomechanics technology.
Engineers at Blatchford have developed the ’élan’ foot — a microprocessor-controlled prosthetic that is expected to provide amputees with a greater freedom of movement.
Surrey Research Park has moved to boost its global credentials by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with South Korea’s Taedok Science Town and the World Technopolis Association..
LogicaCMG has won a £4.5 million contract from EADS Astrium to develop the facility that will control the Galileo constellation, Europe's own global navigation satellite system.
The Australian subsidiary of EPURON and Macquarie Capital Group has signed a joint framework agreement to develop, finance and construct Australia's biggest wind farm.
Foster Wheeler has been awarded $75m to erect a 400MWe pulverised-coal steam generator at the Springerville Generating Station in Arizona.
ABB has been awarded $62m by Vale to supply electrification and automation systems and related equipment for an iron-ore pellet plant in Oman.
Computer scientists at Birmingham University have uncovered a fault in e-passports that makes it possible for anyone with a tag reader to identify individual passengers.
Researchers at Manchester University have demonstrated that membranes can be directly ‘written’ on to a graphene surface using Lipid Dip-Pen Nanolithography (L-DPN).
A working replica of the first fully-operational stored-program computer is to be rebuilt in recognition of the computer scientists at Cambridge University who developed it.
