Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a handheld camera that uses millimetre and microwave signals to non-intrusively look inside materials in real time.

Details of how a £350m fund will be used to train over 3,500 post graduate students in engineering and physical sciences have been announced today by science minister David Willetts.

Researchers claim to have solved a long-standing problem in materials science, a development that makes it possible to create new semiconductor devices using zinc oxide (ZnO).

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated a method for converting CO2 into liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity.

Engineering, science and technology experts met at NIDays 2009 to discuss innovation and how best to inspire it. Andrew Lee reports

Physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have developed a new way of studying the way cracks develop which could help predict and prevent engineering catastrophes.

Scientists based at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea have developed a process that turns coffee waste into a material for capturing and storing methane.

A new type of vacuum cleaner developed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) blows bark or other absorbent material onto oil spills and then sucks the material up again.

UCLA computer science professor Mario Gerla and researcher Giovanni Pau aim to turn cars into computer nodes.

Geoscientists from the University of Edinburgh have received £1.4m funding from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) to investigate the underground storage of hydrogen in...