Newcastle-based Microbritt has secured a patent for its cutting method that enables the rapid manufacture of microscale products from brittle materials.

Engineers at Edinburgh University have developed 3D-printed blood vessels that closely mimic human veins, in what could be a breakthrough for cardiovascular medicine.

A new material that could be used in the Fused Deposition Modelling process has been developed by researchers at Swinburne University of Technology.

Researchers at UWE Bristol have developed a portable and mobile water treatment system capable of delivering clean drinking water at source.

The engineers, scientists and astronomers behind the Herschel and Planck missions have confirmed that the deep-space observatories will be launched aboard Ariane 5 on 14 May 2009.

A coating developed by University of Toronto engineering researchers reduces the amount of microplastic fibres that are shed when clothes made of synthetic fabrics are washed.

Chemists from Oxford University have led an international team in developing a biomimetic method for creating fluorochemicals without the use of hazardous hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas.