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New funding to boost research collaboration and a new partnership to further global AI safety are part of measures announced by the UK and France.

• Updated: 29 February 2024

Upgrades implemented in the Remote Handling Control Room at JET have transformed it into one of the most advanced robotics and remote handling systems globally.

• Updated: 26 February 2024

Planning permission has been granted to develop a new headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts at the University of Reading.

• Updated: 15 February 2024

Agreement complements the signing today of a Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and Canada reflecting a new partnership on fusion energy

• Updated: 14 February 2024

Now in its third year the grant fund has awarded a total of £10.3 million of funding to 110 successful projects.

• Updated: 12 February 2024

The Joint European Torus (JET) has demonstrated the ability to reliably generate fusion energy whilst simultaneously setting a world-record in energy output.

• Updated: 8 February 2024

The government is today investing a total of £45 million in the UK's quantum sector - as part of its commitment to transforming into a quantum-enabled economy by 2033 – seizing this technology’s potential to overhaul he…

• Updated: 5 February 2024

The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) are working to improve environmental outcomes and deliver sustainable decommissioning.

• Updated: 1 February 2024

Taking critical analysis and research from the lab to frontline troops, he and his team work to give our Armed Forces an operational edge.

• Updated: 1 February 2024

A new campaign launched to encourage UK businesses, academics and researchers to apply for Horizon Europe funding kicks off today (Monday 29 January).

• Updated: 29 January 2024

Professor Dame Angela McLean visited the United States to launch the US-UK Strategic Dialogue on Biological Security, visit US laboratories, and take part in discussions with scientists, scientific advisers and companies wor…

• Updated: 24 January 2024

Two former Dstl researchers and inventors use their expertise to manufacture laser detection and protection systems for defence and security industries.

• Updated: 9 January 2024

The groundbreaking fusion machine, Joint European Torus (JET), has finished its course of final experiments after 40 years.

• Updated: 20 December 2023

Fusion energy scientists and engineers at JET have developed a world leading laser-based method to release and measure tritium trapped in fusion energy tokamaks

• Updated: 7 December 2023

Investment will facilitate unprecedented collaboration between academia, industry and policy-makers across Ireland and the UK over the next six years.

• Updated: 28 November 2023

A raft of measures worth hundreds of millions from compute to quantum and life sciences research to pro-innovation regulation were announced in the Autumn Statement yesterday (Wednesday 22 November).

• Updated: 23 November 2023

A new £13m extension has been opened at Oxfordshire Advanced Skills, at UKAEA's Culham Campus, launching new opportunities for apprentices

• Updated: 10 November 2023

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory's (Dstl) agreement with Microsoft aims to deliver safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI).

• Updated: 8 November 2023

The Science Minister George Freeman outlines the recipients of over £14 million in funding, aimed at benefiting the UK’s thriving quantum sector.

• Updated: 3 November 2023

Government and business groups call on individuals, innovators, entrepreneurs, academia and civil society to share ideas for ambitious and feasible solutions that could harness Smart Data

• Updated: 26 October 2023