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Natural fibres and waste products can replace synthetic reinforcement materials to make a more sustainable type of concrete, researchers have said.

The new map is part of UK-wide project to celebrate history of the BBC as it marks its centenary.

A breakthrough battery technology has enabled a 10-minute charge time for typical electric vehicle (EV) batteries, its developers have claimed.

Three underwater robots are monitoring the environmental impact of the gas leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines.

Deployed by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, the ‘glider’ robots from the Voice of the Ocean foundation (VOTO) are helping analyse chemical changes and the effect of the leaking methane gas on marine life.

A €19.6m project aims to design and test the ‘world’s largest capacity floating wave energy device’. 

Using waves to drive trapped air through a turbine, the OE35 device was developed by Irish company OceanEnergy. The firm will now work with 13 other partners from industry and academia across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain to design a 1MW-rated OE35, up from the 500kW current version.

A new class of material can learn behaviours over time and develop a ‘muscle memory’ that allows real-time adaptation to changing external forces, its developers have said.

The technique, which can store and release highly pure hydrogen with salts in the presence of amino acids, was developed by a team at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock, Germany.

The researchers, including Henrik Junge, Matthias Beller and colleagues, focused on hydrogen storage because of its potential as a widespread source of green energy. Handling large quantities of gaseous hydrogen is currently “cumbersome”, a research announcement said, and converting it to a liquid requires vessels that can withstand extremely high pressures.

A £68m project to restore a museum in Glasgow, Scotland, has taken home the biggest prize at this year’s British Construction Industry Awards.

The five-year renovation of the Burrell Collection was named Project of the Year at the BCIA ceremony in London recently

A free training course to upskill learners in Scotland’s booming photonics industry has been developed in collaboration with key industry players including Thales, Leonardo, Coherent, and Technology Scotland.

A new battery made of abundant and inexpensive materials could solve a big problem for renewable energy, its creators have said.

Professor Arne Skauge is to be appointed to a new Energi Simulation Chair at Heriot-Watt University.

The new chair will continue a long-standing collaboration delivering leading research to decarbonise energy generation, by optimising and accelerating recovery from maturing assets and averting the need to develop new oil and gas fields.

A single-molecule thick layer of water is up to 1,000 times more electrically conductive than current battery materials.