New research could lead to voice-recognition systems that can teach themselves to better understand speakers above background noise and with different accents.

High-end robotics resources should be available to everyone in the UK if the workforce is to have the right skills for 2030, a new report says.

Chemists have devised a method that could allow them to organise tiny molecular machines on a surface to build minute switching devices.

Ford Motor Company has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Volvo Car Corporation and related assets to China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group for $1.8bn (£1.2bn).

Viewpoint Phil Skipper, Head of M2M Business Development, Vodafone Group explains how machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, a component of the ‘internet of things’, can help smaller companies to...

Newbury, UK, March 2009… AWS Cemgraft - part of the AWS Group, one of the UK’s leading independent Electronic Manufacturing Solutions (EMS) providers - has recently invested to upgrade its surface...

The Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxford is to receive more than half a billion pounds to upgrade and expand its scientific capabilities.

Alstom is to host this summer’s The Greatest Gathering, the UK’s largest gathering of historic rail vehicles to mark the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. 

Using an atomic-force microscope fitted with a tiny electrode tip, researchers have identified in real-time how catalysts made from nickel nanoparticles collect charges that are excited by light in...