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Let’s start with how the concept of ‘Waste as a Resource’ came about in the early 2000s. Although engineers involved in the industry initially welcomed the publication of the well-known Waste Hierarchy, it soon became apparent to them that it would be very difficult to implement in practice.

An award of £5.2m from UK charity, the Hamish Ogston Foundation to Historic Environment Scotland (HES) will fund a new traditional skills training programme, giving a much-needed boost to the specialist skills needed to conserve and maintain Scotland’s historic built environment

Scientists at the University of Aberdeen are developing technology that will enable electricity generated by renewables to be 'banked' as green hydrogen in depleted oil and gas reservoirs alongside industrial carbon emissions.

Wreck of Europe’s first commercial steamship designated as a scheduled monument

Scientists are closely watching the fast pace of a vast swathe of floating Antarctic ice that hosts a UK base.

The Halley station sits on the Brunt Ice Shelf, which has recorded an abrupt acceleration in recent months after calving giant icebergs.

Carol Marsh, OBE is one of five engineers to be inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. Carol was born in Edinburgh and is an alumnus of no less than five Scottish universities: Napier, Heriot Watt, Strathclyde, Glasgow and Edinburgh in the field of electronics engineering, specialising in Field Programmable Gate Arrays and is now head of Digital Systems at Celestia UK.

A new shipbuilding lending scheme has been launched which could create hundreds of UK jobs and contribute hundreds of millions of pounds to the UK economy.

Wave energy developer Mocean Energy has secured over £3m EU funding to develop and deploy a 250kW wave machine, a considerable increase in scale compared to its current 10kW prototype.

A solid-oxide cell developed by Ceres Power has a uniquely appealing feature – running in one direction, it generates low-carbon electricity from multiple fuels, while running in the other direction it produces ‘green’ hydrogen from renewable energy and steam.

Renewable energy delivery from ocean tides, and the contribution of tidal stream energy to net zero goals, are to be supported through a £7million investment in research co-led at the University of Strathclyde.

Aberdeen students are being given vital tips on how to boost their employability in the digital age.

A careers event being hosted by AFBE-UK Scotland and the University of Aberdeen aims to provide students with a forum to speak to potential employers, while also learning more about industry.

Researchers found that the location in and around tumours of cytotoxic T cells, which play a key role in fighting cancer, may help predict patient survival and indicate whether or not treatments will work.

The findings could help to pave the way for improved immunotherapies - powerful but expensive life-extending treatments which currently fail in 80 per cent of cases - allowing them to work more effectively in more patients, researchers say.