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On Wednesday, 11 March, the Tall Ship Glenlee was delighted to welcome representatives from the Spanish Navy and the Spanish Consul General based in Edinburgh on board the ship.

A pioneering new radar system is being developed at Heriot-Watt University to provide continuous, non-contact healthcare assessments of people in custody. It’s a move researchers believe could better support mental and physical health care in prisons.

A new pilot will see the Scottish and Irish governments collaborate to offer 20 paid placements for students to help build the skilled workforce needed for the growing offshore wind sector.

A UK Government investment of £20 million for the University of Edinburgh’s Quantum Software Lab (QSL) will accelerate the development of quantum software.

A new way of classifying energy efficiency that could benefit households and address the global net-zero carbon agenda has been developed by the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge.

In engineering circles, the climate conversation is usually framed around one dominant assumption: a steadily warming world. We talk about heatwave resilience, cooling demand, overheating in buildings, and the long-term consequences of rising sea levels. Those risks are real. But new modelling around the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) points to a scenario that appears to defy that logic entirely.

This factsheet explains how alternative and sustainable fuels are produced using the Fischer-Tropsch process.

A company being established by a University of Strathclyde researcher is pursuing innovative methods of combining carbon capture with sustainable building materials.

Airlander 10 will be our first aircraft to market – a 98m long aircraft that will be able to carry 10 tonnes or 100+ passengers.

A landmark space mission built on UK research excellence is set to accelerate progress in quantum communications, as the Heriot-Watt University led Integrated Quantum Networks (IQN) Hub launches the pioneering “Satellite Platform for Optical Quantum Communications” (SPOQC).

New research into why lithium-ion batteries tend to lose power over cycles of charge and discharge could help unlock the next generation of more durable, fast-charging power cells.

Alex, a Year 5 pupil at The Pilgrim School in Rochester, has recently achieved a significant feat by winning a Silver medal at the Primary Engineer MacRobert Medal for his renewable energy invention which was turned into a prototype.