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Malachy, a Year 9 pupil at St Oliver Plunkett Primary School in Belfast, has recently achieved a significant feat by winning a Silver medal and The Commendation Award at the Primary Engineer MacRobert Medal for his innovative invention which was turned into a prototype and aims at providing equal play opportunities for all children.

A new exhibit at London’s world-famous Victoria and Albert Museum features pioneering ENU research into the future of sustainable construction from UK-grown timber.

As part of the exclusive tours, visitors will get access to usually hidden areas of Stirling Castle

Secret Stirling Tours - a new bespoke tour of Stirling Castle - launches today (Monday 15 September) giving visitors exclusive access to areas of the site that are normally closed to the public.

Professor Chris Dent is amongst the inaugural cohort of Fellows for the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences.

Scientists at the University of Strathclyde are helping to shape international guidelines on the safe and sustainable use of space.

The University is part of a project, known as METRIX, also involving the University of Birmingham which is one of 10 projects sharing £380,000 of funding from the UK Space Agency.

For decades, physicists have dreamed of a quantum internet: a planetary web of ultrasecure communications and super-powered computation built not from electrical signals, but from the ghostly connections between particles of light.

Now, Heriot-Watt scientists say they’ve taken a major step towards turning that vision into something real.

A breakthrough development in nanofabrication could help support the development of new wireless, flexible, high-performance transparent electronic devices.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow’s James Watt School of Engineering have developed a new method of interfacial imprinting ultra-thin nanowires onto bendable, transparent polymeric substrates.

Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, Heriot-Watt University’s Deputy Principal for Global Sustainability, has been awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Low Energy Technologies.

Sophisticated new chemical analysis of gases trapped in rocks for millions of years has cast new light on the origin of the gold deposits beneath Scotland and Ireland.

The finding, made by team of scientists led by Professor Fin Stuart from the University of Glasgow, could help pinpoint the location of buried deposits of the treasured metal in the future.

UNIVERSALLY known in Glasgow as The Tall Ship Glenlee, its distinctive masts are a familiar and much-loved sight, reminding people of the time when the River Clyde was bustling with traffic on its water.

Now, this week, for the first time in 30 years, the floating museum’s famous masts are being removed for essential conservation work.

Two of her three masts will travel south of the border, bound for a specialist workshop in Maldon, Essex.

The UK space industry now has its first complete estimate of how much greenhouse gas emissions it produces, thanks to new research led by Dr Andrew Wilson from Glasgow Caledonian University.

The study gives the most detailed picture so far of the industry’s environmental impact and explains how it can help the UK reach its net-zero target by 2050.

In 2026, the Royal Aeronautical Society celebrates 160 years of advancing global aerospace knowledge, fostering professional excellence, and shaping the future of flight.