Lockheed Martin has completed a successful test of its first 360-degree infrared sensor turret aboard its Desert Hawk III unmanned aircraft system.

Hyperdrive Innovation and Hitachi Rail are to develop battery packs to power trains and create a battery hub in the North East of England.

Local authorities will have 16 weeks to make a decision on shale gas exploration applications before the Communities Secretary steps in to take the decision on their behalf

Ericsson is to invest ‘tens of millions of pounds’ into establishing a new research unit in the UK to boost the country’s future wireless connectivity capabilities.

Heriot-Watt University is to lead a new quantum research hub that is set to develop technologies for an ultra-secure ‘quantum internet’ of the future.

Researchers have used light technology to non-invasively image brains, to help diagnose hearing impairments in infants and prescribe effective treatment as early as possible.

The Gravity Light has been designed to bring safe, cheap light to the developing world using the force that binds the universe together. Andrew Wade reports