Shipping Minister Stephen Ladyman has today set out how the UK can make the most from Automatic Identification System technology.

CorPower Ocean has installed its first commercial scale WEC (wave energy converter) in northern Portugal ahead of a commissioning program.

Engineers at Washington University in St Louis have coupled a USB-based ultrasound probe with a smartphone, producing a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a hand.

A transmission licence application has been made for a proposed new electricity interconnector between Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing in the US the first absorbable polymer suture made from material isolated from bacteria modified by recombinant DNA technology.

Researchers at Osaka University are speeding up research on materials suitable for solar cells with a robotic system that automates experimental and analytical processes.