Firms including BAE Systems, Babcock and Sainsbury’s are partnering with the Digital Catapult for a new set of prototype challenges aimed at boosting technology adoption across industry.

Figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that renewables generated more electricity in the last quarter than coal or nuclear plants.

Superfast particle beams with applications in engineering and medicine emerge from interaction between lasers and plastic foil

The first flight of Boeing’s unmanned aircraft Loyal Wingman has taken place at the Woomera Range Complex in South Australia.

Nanomeshes are being fabricated in a way that makes them effective at delivering antibiotics, a breakthrough that could help in the global fight against antibiotic resistance.

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed CASB (carbon/air secondary battery), an alternative electric energy storage system that utilises carbon (C) instead of hydrogen. 

Researchers in the US have developed a robot that can touch and identify more than 100 common materials.