Surgeons could be assisted in the operating theatre by medical robots following the first demonstration of a robot that can navigate autonomously inside the body.

Network Rail is to fund a £259m project that will construct the first new rail link from London to a major British city since 1910.

A biomimetic artificial vision device promises new capabilities for microrobots plus potential applications in medical diagnosis and manufacturing.

Severely disabled people could soon be able to control their electric wheelchairs by simply looking in the direction they wish to travel.

A new concept for a huge solar shield counterbalanced by a captured asteroid has been proposed by an astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi’.

Research results from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggest that lignocellulosic biomass can be used in the production of high-quality biofuels for less than €1 per litre.

Acoustic detection techniques similar to those used to spot blockages in the ears of newborn babies could be used to prevent aircraft accidents by spotting blockages in pitot tubes, the pressure...