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Space is running out. About 23,000 pieces of debris clutter Earth’s orbit, chunks larger than softballs travelling at up to 28,000km/h and threatening grave damage to satellites and spacecraft. Roughly 100 million smaller pieces are also in orbit, according to NASA.

A new white paper has been published that sets out how the entire built environment sector can unite behind a single, agreed standard to determine, demonstrate and recognise construction products competence (CPC).

Industry and government collaborate on best practice guidance helping major infrastructure projects, such as HS2 and Crossrail, improve data securityNew advice, published by GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, sets out best approach for managing information security risksConstruction sector urged to follow guidance amid continued targeting by malicious actors

More than 1,000 new electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints will be installed in nine local authorities around England in a new government-backed pilot scheme.

Scottish start-up Mako Aerospace based in Dunfermline, has teamed up with the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), operated by the University of Strathclyde, to manufacture the world’s first all-electric jet engine, which could double the range of electric aircraft compared to current hybrid models.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh has joined 18 Commonwealth science academies to urge their nations’ leaders to work together to take coordinated and equitable action to address climate change, biodiversity loss and other critical and related sustainability challenges.

Next-generation nuclear technology including high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR) and micro-modular reactors (MMR) have received government backing.

The UK government must capture the opportunities presented by low-carbon hydrogen and scale up its production, according to a new report published today by the National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC), a partnership of 42 professional engineering organisations which the IET is part of.

As a shipbuilder and designer with more than a century of history, Ulstein has a proven resilience when it comes to adapting to maritime’s ever-changing political and economic landscape.

A 500-year-old tower house which was the seat of the Balfours of Burleigh for more than 250 years has reopened to the public

Every Forward Thinker needs a place to develop a sense of scientific exploration and investigation. For the young James Alfred Ewing, that place was the family attic in Dundee.

An extreme performance new electric vehicle (EV) platform from Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) could cut development timescales for high-end cars by an entire year.