A team of British engineers has broken the 103-year-old world speed record for a steam-powered car in the Mojave Desert, California.

A UK company developing laboratory standard point-of-need diagnostic testing products has raised £1.6m from a syndicate of angel investors and Innovate UK.

The US Department of Energy today announced that it is putting approximately $1.4m into two projects that will study the economic feasibility of producing hydrogen at nuclear power plants.

Fungus-based materials are being investigated by researchers in Germany for the fabrication of eco-friendly sound absorbers.

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) have developed a strip-type urine sensor that can amplify the light signal of metabolites in urine, aiding the detection of cancers.