Start-up Flux Aviation has been awarded funding to help fulfil its long-term goal of decarbonising the UK’s regional and domestic flights with ultra high-performance electric motors and batteries.

The new RE.E3 castor recently announced by Elesa features a vulcanised rubber tyre that ensures a soft ride over most industrial flooring types from tiles to expanded metal, asphalt or cement-resin.

This week’s Futurescope literally takes off from the Dübendorf Airfield in Switzerland where the first solar powered aircraft designed to fly night and day without fuel achieved its first ‘flea hop’.

A project that aims to revolutionise how a host of pharmaceutical and chemical products are made has received £709,000 in funding from the Scottish Funding Council, under its Demand-led Knowledge...

University of Queensland scientists have been awarded a $3.3 million grant to build a new generation of robots that can learn about their physical spaces based on animal navigation skills.

Advances in electronics and computing have led to a new breed of aircraft sensors that are even more powerful than before, driving innovations in areas such as air safety. Colin Carter reports.

Princeton researchers have constructed a 3D model of a quasicrystal made from polymer rods to test whether such structures are useful for controlling the path of light in photonic circuits.

The total global market for capacitors, flywheels and SMES systems will rise at an average annual growth rate of 5.9%, from $9.2 billion in 2005 to $12.2 billion in 2010.

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast and Aquamarine Power, a marine energy company, have joined forces on a new five-year research partnership to develop a new hydro-electric wave power...

Futurescope’s vision of tomorrow is typically benign but as we all know - from nuclear fission to robotics - most major advances come with an unwelcome, and often destructive, flip side.