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Universities Minister Jo Johnson has announced that the UK Government will provide £167 million in funding to help train PhD students in engineering and physical sciences, as well as investing…
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Health
More money was invested in renewables in 2015 than was invested in building new fossil fuel power plants, a report by Clean Energy Canada has revealed.
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SpaceOpportunities
Horizon 2020, the European Union’s research and innovation programme, has given €5 million in funds to help build a giant radio telescope.
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Health
Scottish Power Renewables have announced that they are going ahead with a £2.5bn investment in building a huge wind farm off the coast of Suffolk.
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Automotive & TransportOpportunities
Aston Martin has announced a significant investment in the UK, confirming that it will open a manufacturing plant in St Athan, Wales to develop its new concept car, the DBX luxury hybrid and electric 4x4.
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Health
3D printing technology is beginning to offer ways for new robots to be built with fewer materials and very little assembly, making them quicker to make and more affordable.
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Energy & Environment
New research has been published which suggests that in the 2020s, cars run on electric batteries will become cheaper to run than their petrol counterparts.
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Automotive & TransportOpportunities
The UK government has announced that it will provide £20 million in funding for research into the development of autonomous navigation systems for vehicles.
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Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
Tests are being held in a field in Yorkshire for a new robot which will be able to traverse difficult terrain and autonomously detect and destroy weeds.
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Energy & Environment
Formula E chief executive Alejandro Agag has announced that Daniel Simon, a German concept designer who has worked for Bugatti and Formula 1 teams and designed lightcycles for the movie…
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Health
Aston Martin has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese technology firm LeEco, starting a new collaboration to develop a high end luxury electric car called the Aston Martin RapidE.
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Space
Following the historic detection of gravitational waves earlier this month, India’s government has indicated its initial approval to build its own gravitational wave detector, LIGO-India.
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Automotive & Transport
This July at Silverstone, over 3000 students from 130 universities in 31 countries will compete in Formula Student, an educational motorsport competition run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
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Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
A team of researchers from the UCL Optical Networks Group have proposed a low cost solution to the problem of providing high-speed broadband to users in their homes.
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Aerospace, Defence & MarineOpportunities
Boeing has published new research showing that they are experiencing significant growth in both direct and supply chain employment in the UK.
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Energy & Environment
The Rasa, an innovative new hydrogen-powered car which emits only water vapour, has been test-driven around London.
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Automotive & Transport
A team from Southampton University and Imperial College London have successfully tested an innovative new wing design for Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), inspired by the muscles in bats’ wings.
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Space
Sentinel-3A, the third satellite in the European Copernicus programme, has launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia.
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Aerospace, Defence & Marine
A military-grade drone is being tested by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the hope that it can be used to accurately track severe storms.
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Aerospace, Defence & MarineOpportunities
A team of apprentices working for BAE Systems has won the company’s Apprentice Innovation Challenge by developing an innovative new grabber device, which makes it easier for people with limited movement to pick up objects.
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Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
A research programme has been launched by Airbus Group Innovations in collaboration with Japanese and French research teams, which will manufacture humanoid robots to be used in civilian airliner assembly lines.
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