ExxonMobil will proceed with the construction of a second world-scale steam cracker complex in Singapore, after completing a detailed study.

University of Limerick graduate Olivia Humphreys has been named an international winner of the annual James Dyson Award for Athena, a portable scalp cooling device for people undergoing chemotherapy.

Patients may feel less of a pinch when getting their next injection with the use of a new syringe developed by UK and Swiss medical device specialists.

A radio-tagging system that could save airlines and retailers millions of pounds has won its Cambridge University creators a leading engineering award.

Manufacturing employers are open to a four-day week but introducing the practice would require changes to business models, a new study commissioned by Protolabs has found.

A new wearable throat sensor promises to improve stroke rehabilitation by measuring a patient’s ability to swallow and patterns of speech.