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A ground-breaking project that could transform ocean monitoring, giving coastal communities vital extra time to prepare for tsunamis is being unveiled today.

• Updated: 23 April 2024

SAPIENT enables interoperability of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled sensors, combined with intelligent fusion and sensor management.

• Updated: 23 April 2024

UKAEA has improved optical viewport technology - reducing optical distortion by up to 75 percent - for applications such as fusion energy and quantum physics.

• Updated: 9 April 2024

The UK government is announcing its support for the renowned particle physicist Professor Mark Thomson, to be the next Director-General of CERN.

• Updated: 2 April 2024

Researchers around the world will soon be able to access millions of the natural, historic specimens found in UK museums at the click of a button as part of a £473 million UK fund to enhance key research infrastructure.

• Updated: 27 March 2024

Scott Mitchell appointed People’s Champion of the national mission to beat dementia, founded in his wife Dame Barbara Windsor’s memory.

• Updated: 20 March 2024

On Tuesday 12 March, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) welcomed key Welsh stakeholders, as well as students and academia, to their Innovation and Technology Roadshow.

• Updated: 15 March 2024

British semiconductor researchers and businesses now have enhanced access to research funding backed by the UK government and Horizon Europe, now the UK has joined the EU’s ‘Chips Joint Undertaking’.

• Updated: 13 March 2024

These centres will enable novel research and provide a future pipeline of trained research staff in critical technology areas for defence.

• Updated: 12 March 2024

UK and Saudi Arabia agree deal to boost research links, supporting work from food security to clean energy, to boosting business and R&D connections.

• Updated: 4 March 2024

UK Atomic Energy Authority has launched a new online tool for residents and local businesses near West Burton to learn more about the vision for the STEP site.

• Updated: 29 February 2024

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