The UK government’s latest defence review has included the announcement of increased spending on aircraft and special forces units. Meanwhile, the latest HM Treasury Autumn Statement was expected to...

Assuming we’re able to detect a hazardous asteroid approaching the Earth, what can we do to prevent disaster? The Engineer's resident science fiction author, Gareth L. Powell, looks at ways we might...

The Department of Trade and Industry has awarded £450,000 to The Forensic Science Service to develop a commercial DNA Database package so police and governments can store, search and match forensic...

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is aiming to develop more compact particle accelerators for commercial use in a range of industries.

A new disaster monitoring satellite has just passed stringent thermal vacuum tests at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

We’re in the middle of National Science and Engineering Week. You can tell from the relentlessly chirpy articles in the newspapers accompanied by pictures of happy, smiling schoolchildren in safety...

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.

Science Applications International Corporation has been awarded a contract for the production and delivery of Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami systems by Australia's Bureau of...

A swarm of flapping winged flyers laden with sensors and wireless communications devices could one day help with Martian exploration and science missions on the red planet.

Researchers at Atmel, Cisco and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) have developed a small open-source, IPv6-ready protocol stack.