A new survey of high-tech manufacturers highlights a UK business sector that is forging ahead and strongly confident about prospects in 2011.

MACH 2018 was officially opened this morning by sailing legend Sir Ben Ainslie.

Satellite technology that helped the Haiti earthquake relief effort has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s MacRobert Award, Britain’s biggest prize for engineering innovation.

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have constructed liquid crystals with optical properties that can be instantly and reversibly controlled by an external magnetic field. 

Michigan Technological University researchers develop concept for ferrofluid-based propulsion

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists researching gold's structure at the nanoscale have discovered hollow cage-like structures made of pure gold atoms