West Yorkshire is set to provide the blueprint for decarbonising urban heat following a £75m investment into 1Energy’s Bradford Energy Network.

Boeing predicts that China will require 4,330 new commercial aircraft valued at $480bn (£299bn) over the next 20 years.

As demand for more intelligent devices increases, so does the need to squeeze ever more processing power into smaller and smaller microchips.

Recyclus is collaborating with Birmingham University in a project to create a mobile battery recycling system capable of safely handling lithium-ion batteries.

US automotive technology firm Local Motors has announced plans to begin selling the world’s first commercially available 3D printed car later this year.

Researchers in the US have created RoboMapper, a robot that conducts experiments more efficiently and sustainably to develop new semiconductor materials.

Tidal Energy has secured £6.4m of support that will enable the company to deploy its 1.2MW DeltaStream tidal energy device off the Welsh coast in 2012.

Owls’ wings could provide the inspiration for a new generation of quieter aircraft and wind turbines according to a study carried out by researchers from Japan and China.

Eliminating microplastic pollution through a cradle-to-cradle economy is the most innovative thing humankind can do, says Adam Root, CEO of Matter