The Carbon Trust has awarded fuel-cell companies £2m as part of plans to bring down the cost of zero-emission technologies.
This week’s video comes from the US where an energy saving technique from the natural world is being applied to microrobotics.
Jaguar Land Rover has launched a new competition requiring students to engineer bridges using only newspaper.
The cost of Earth observation could be reduced considerably with Skimsats, a new class of spacecraft subject to research being carried out by Thales Alenia Space and Qinetiq.
Surrey University has received a £620,000 grant to build devices that will monitor greenhouse gas emissions and the direction the wind is blowing them.
A process that turns waste from rubber tyres into graphene can be used to strengthen concrete, claim scientists at Rice University in Texas.
Medical and healthcare technology development in Scotland is to be fast-tracked in a five-year partnership between Heriot-Watt University and InnoScot Health.
Shale-gas drilling could be given the go-ahead in the UK but is unlikely to have a major impact on energy security or domestic prices.
Vats of blue-green algae could replace oil wells in producing raw materials for the chemical industry, according to a University of California, Davis, chemist.
Businesses have today (September 21, 2022) been given a degree of certainty on energy bills following the announcement by the government of measures to curb rising costs.
