A team of scientists from three UK universities been awarded a £3.5m grant by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to build a functional unit of the brain.

A new ESA mission led by UK scientists will attempt to get up close to a pristine comet, untouched by our sun, for the very first time.

The CASBliP consortium has developed a device that uses a property of the way the brain processes the inputs from the senses — sound cues are associated with spatial awareness.

ESA’s space-based Ariel mission, which will survey around 1,000 planets beyond our solar system, has been formally adopted by the agency.

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Richard Barker, head of energy and environment at the National Physical Laboratory, talks about the need for a rigorous systems level approach to the net zero challenge.