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The world has a growing e-waste problem. An estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste were produced in 2022, according to a UN body, with that number forecast to reach 74 million tonnes by 2030. Only a small fraction is recycled, despite huge demand for raw materials from manufacturers.

The shortage of traditional heritage skills is at risk of becoming a crisis due to a lack of training opportunities and awareness about the problem.

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have made a ground-breaking discovery paving the way for a transformative era in photonic technology.

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are an exciting vision of the future, promising clean, locally generated electricity wherever it is needed, using technology that is mostly built off-site.

A new R&D development designed to support the growth of semiconductor packaging has received a £9 million funding injection, helping to reshore a critical part of the UK’s £500 million electrification supply chain and create new opportunities for manufacturers to access new markets and cut costs.

Many badly worn highways assets require more urgent attention, warn expert contributors to State of the Nation 2025.

The UK government announced in October last year plans to implement a ‘cap and floor’ investment framework to support the deployment of long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects in the UK. Together with Ofgem, which will act as the regulator and delivery body for the scheme, it has now published a Technical Decision Document (TDD) confirming key details of the scheme.

The ocean is a vast untapped source of power. The movement of the tides and waves could offer regular, reliable and predictable renewable energy.

Students from Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) have been learning first hand from the deep retrofit of Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST)’s National Retrofit Centre.

Personalised healthcare could transform medicine. By tracking and measuring patients’ conditions, doctors could deliver the precise combination of nutrients and medications they need, stabilising and improving conditions.

A pilot version of the UK’s first cross-industry Standard for net zero carbon aligned buildings was launched on Tuesday 24 September 2024. Leading organisations BBP, BRE, the Carbon Trust, CIBSE, IStructE, LETI, RIBA, RICS, and UKGBC have joined forces to champion this initiative

US-company Charge Robotics is developing solar installation factories to speed up the process of building large-scale solar farms. The company’s factories are shipped to the site of solar projects, where equipment including tracks, mounting brackets and panels are fed into the system and automatically assembled. A robotic vehicle autonomously puts the finished product – which amounts to a completed section of solar farm – in its final place.