Patent protection has a central role to play in Europe's knowledge economy, European Patent Office President Alain Pompidou told the annual EPO online services conference last week.

General Dynamics C4 Systems has been awarded an $18 million contract by the US National Security Agency to design and develop a mobile telephone/personal digital assistant.

The first tanker of sustainably produced bioethanol has been despatched to Shell from the UK’s and Europe’s largest wheat biorefinery, which recently started production.

Boeing is to take part in a hypersonics research programme jointly established by the US Air Force Research Laboratory and Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation.

Bombardier Transportation has been awarded a contract by the Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. to install the first modern signalling system in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Ohio State University researchers have used a new technique to obtain the highest-ever resolution MRI scan of the inside of a magnet.

The James Dyson Foundation and a charity led by F1 legend Jackie Stewart are teaming up to support a £500,000 research fellowship into dementia.

The overwhelming majority of respondents to The Engineer’s latest poll back remaining in the EU and maintaining our current relationship with the trading bloc.

Rittal claims its RimatriX5 monitoring and remote management module is able to offer security and remote maintenance from a single source.

The Reli-a-Flex® coupling range has been developed and manufactured in-house at Reliance to perform in increasingly demanding applications.