Energy-scavenging systems being developed by MIT Prof Anantha Chandrakasan and Dr Yogesh Ramadass could provide power for sensors through from differences in temperature between the body and the...

The Low Carbon Seed Fund has invested £175,000 in Evince Technology, a company that has developed a semiconductor device that could improve the performance of wind turbines and fuel cells

UGS, the product lifecycle management software house, has opened up shop within Second Life, the 3D virtual world.

Scottish and Southern Energy and Scottish Co-investment Fund have announced a £300,000 investment in Smarter Grid Solutions, the Active Network Management spin out founded by Strathclyde University.

Scotland’s energy minister Fergus Ewing has welcomed new figures that show output from renewables in the first quarter of 2012 increased by 45.5 per cent on the same period the year before.

The UK has been a pioneer in the domain of fibre-optic communication and other digital technologies, as Stuart Nathan reports