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A blue plaque has been unveiled in honour of the pioneering medical scientist Mary Pickford (1902-2002).

A £50,000 prize is up for grabs for Scottish videogame designers who can successfully deploy game design and game technologies to develop a virtual environment that tests new approaches to increasing access to healthy food.

Edinburgh has announced a multi-million-pound, long-term commitment to capture and store its unavoidable carbon emissions, and benefit nature, through restoring peatlands and expanding forests in Scotland.

Over an initial period of 50 years, by investing in tree planting and restoring peatlands in partnership with others, the University expects to remove almost 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This will also yield significant benefits to the institution’s core purposes of research, learning and teaching, as well as enhancing biodiversity for the sites.

Strathclyde University has been awarded £853,000 to host a bespoke nationwide facility for testing nanotechnologies for healthcare applications.

Green hydrogen produced on an industrial scale with offshore wind is the subject of a study being carried out by the Offshore Wind Power Limited (OWPL) consortium.

Five regions have been shortlisted as potential sites for STEP – Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production STEP – the UK’s prototype fusion energy plant.

The latest stage of Scotland’s hydrogen-powered train project, involving Arcola Energy, the University of St Andrews and Scottish Enterprise, will be unveiled at Bo’ness on Thursday 4th Nov ahead of its planned inaugural run on the line in March.

The Royal Mint has signed an agreement with a Canadian tech start-up, Excir, with a view to introducing a new technology to the UK. This will allow the Mint to retrieve and recycle gold and other precious metals from e-waste.

A new Scottish Space Strategy launched by the Scottish government aims to position Scotland as a global leader for commercial space developments.

The Scottish Maritime Museum on Irvine Harbourside will once again light up red in support of the Scottish Poppy Appeal.

Rolls-Royce has carried out a successful test flight of its 747 Flying Testbed aircraft using 100 per cent Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) on a Trent family engine.

Strathclyde is also leading on the £500,000 NEPTUNE project to support the transition to zero-carbon fuels for the Shetland Islands’ maritime industry.