Researchers at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a way to produce butanol from bacteria at rates significantly higher than those achieved using current...

Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have developed thin-film solar cells on flexible polymer foils with a new efficiency record for converting...

A condition for which there is no cure could be treated more effectively following EPSRC-funded research being carried out in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Sheffield...

An international team led by researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions has unveiled a near unbreakable substance that could rival diamond as the hardest...

A £13m initiative designed to boost the growth and competitiveness of digital technology in Wales was launched this week by Lesley Griffiths, deputy minister for science, innovation and skills.

Several Chinese universities are working with Boeing Phantom Works to research and develop new technologies for wireless communications.

Four US research institutions have each received a $500,000 grant to develop new computational models of how the brain's visual system learns to recognise objects.

Members of the public are being invited to help create a more accurate picture of where places are on the UK map.