Palm oil is used in products including soap, pharmaceuticals, fuels and cosmetics but its cultivation is seen by many as environmentally deleterious.

Some of The Engineer's key commercial partners offer their take on the trends and technologies that will shape industry over the coming months in the publication's Tech Trends 2021 supplement.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has announced the biggest ever investment in the training of scientists and engineers in the UK.

Crown Estate Scotland has revealed the 17 projects chosen as part of its ScotWind leasing round, the first Scottish offshore wind round in over a decade.

Oxford nanoScience has announced a breakthrough in 3-Dimensional Atom Probe technology.

A joint research team is developing a new breast cancer screening technique that could reduce false positives and potentially minimise the need for biopsies.

An international group of researchers has developed and tested a new generation of photovoltaic cells in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Bringing forward around £10bn of public spending suggests that the ripples of optimism from the other side of the Atlantic are finally lapping at our shores.