A Bath-based engineering company has been commended by the Carbon Trust in its 2009 annual awards in London for developing a device that prevents the leaks of toxic chemicals from oil refineries.

The Discovery Fund recently made its second investment in a new university spin-out that is developing water droplets that serve as miniature test tubes.

Sandia National Laboratory's Z machine has produced plasma that exceeds temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, which is hotter than the interiors of stars.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation has acquired the HydraNut product line and related intellectual property of Technofast International, a subsidiary of Australia’s Tech Novus, for $8 million.

Software that can produce a single seamless image from several smaller ones is now available from The Value Engineering Alliance.