Hand-held probe expected to cut huge number and cost of unnecessary surgeries ‘dramatically’.

Swiss photovoltaics center working on cheaper high-performance silicon solar cells adds 1100 square meters of development space.

Prof Xiangqian Jiang working on precise measurement tools for future factories and "Industry 4.0".

Terahertz specialist and university looking at body’s take-up of amorphous, low-solubility drugs.

Digital Economy commissioner Günther Oettinger outlines plans for a major new innovation program at event in Delft.

International team says results show significant "up-scalability" of their new thin film technology.

Cambridge researchers say their ANTs (actuating nano-transducers) could one day treat living cells.

Two grants have been awarded to biological imaging and laser material research projects in Germany.

Developed by four-year ROBUST project, the LZH system uses LIBS, like ExoMars probe.

Leading lights in photonics research attend official opening of the Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.

Partnership between Southampton and Bordeaux achieve control of integrated optical circuits with patterns of light.

Thought zero-power brain implants were a Hollywood fantasy? Not if DARPA succeeds in research now under way.