Living organisms have inspired researchers to create a plastic that is rigid in some places and soft in others, an advance that could lead to more flexible electronics and robotics.

Artificial intelligence could one day help doctors to predict which of their patients are at greatest risk of dying of a heart condition, allowing them to be treated more effectively.

Whilst it’s important to recognise the economic potential of a great idea, we should be wary of putting economics at the heart of all decisions to do with science and technology.

Researchers in the UK and Denmark are embarking on Project BEAR, an EPSRC-funded effort to recover rare earth elements in waste that provides a sustainable alternative to metal mining.

The US government has committed $1bn (£630m) in Recovery Act funding to a consortium of companies to build FutureGen 2.0, the world’s first coal-fuelled, near-zero emissions power plant.

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A British engineering team is heading to Antarctica for the first stage of a scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath 3km of ice.

Industrial giant Bosch has launched a new competition challenging young women engineers to think about how the Internet of Things (IoT) could be used to make the world a better place.

UK Research and Innovation is to provide an initial £18m in match funding to a consortium of companies designing a new type of nuclear power station in the UK.

The UK’s Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have awarded £1.4m to a consortium of universities and companies that plans to develop prototype...