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Here are the technologies shaping the next five to 10 years, and the impact they will have on businesses, industry, people and climate.

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to ensure that cell-cultivated products, including lab-grown steak, beef, chicken and foie gras, are safe to eat before being sold to consumers.

Drax power station has been crowned the UK’s ‘largest single source of carbon emissions’ yet again, with emissions rising 16% from last year.

Changes to EU rules around carbon offsets amount to a watering down of commitments, climate campaigners have said.

The National Energy System Operator has published a July timeline for developers to submit evidence of their transmission projects, ahead of the upcoming reordering of the grid connections queue.

A carbon capture method that converts carbon dioxide into metal oxalates – a precursor for cement production – has been developed by a team of researchers.

An AI chip developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany works without a cloud server or internet connections.

An interdisciplinary team is to delve into the under-researched Roman brickwork of the German city of Trier.

Researchers in Germany have created a method to transform plastic packaging waste into high-quality 3D printed products.

Fusion energy start-up Focused Energy and German energy company RWE have signed an agreement to build a 1GW fusion power plant at the former Biblis nuclear power plant site in Hesse, Germany, according to Reuters.

Liquid carbon, a material that could play a key role in future nuclear fusion reactors, has been made by a team of scientists for the first time.

Supramolecular materials that fully degrade when soaked in saltwater could tackle microplastics pollution crisis.

The new tyres made using over one-third recycled materials, are featured in select Lego sets, with a full transition planned for later this year.

New manufacturing technique paves the way for low cost and scaleable solar generation, according to new research by the University of Sheffield.

Liquid carbon, a material that could play a key role in future nuclear fusion reactors, has been made by a team of scientists for the first time.

Researchers have developed a laser-induced graphene sensor material that when embedded into a bandage could enable improved tracking of healing wounds.

Scientists and engineers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Bristol have teamed up to create the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery.

Nasa has successfully launched its Psyche spacecraft on a mission to study the largest of the metal-rich asteroids in the solar system, believed to have been formed 4.5 billion years ago.

When two Californian professors thought up the CubeSat at the turn of the third millennium, they had no idea they would set off a revolution in how things are done in space. And all they wanted was to give their students hands-on experience...

To better understand how passengers may experience future travel by air taxi, Nasa researchers have carried out studies using a vertical motion simulator.

Small in either area, population or wealth, being of diminutive stature has not stopped these seven territories from punching above their weight in the global tech stakes.

Miniature robots that can find and fix leaky water pipes autonomously without the need to dig up roads have been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

The King's birthday flypast featured a dramatic aerial display from the Red Arrows, which for the first time were powered using renewable fuels.

The Department for Transport has announced measures to support green aviation fuel producers, including a revenue certainty scheme and an additional £400,000 in funding.

The newly launched ‘Call Aviation to Action’ movement is calling on aviation professionals to ‘urgently and decisively’ address the industry’s growing climate impact.

The new tyres made using over one-third recycled materials, are featured in select Lego sets, with a full transition planned for later this year.

Miniature robots that can find and fix leaky water pipes autonomously without the need to dig up roads have been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

A large shaking table that mimics earthquake events has allowed researchers at the University of Bristol to evaluate the structural integrity of 3D-printed concrete structures.

The extent of AI cheating at universities is significant and increasingly going undetected, a survey by The Guardian has found.

A carbon capture method that converts carbon dioxide into metal oxalates – a precursor for cement production – has been developed by a team of researchers.

French clean-tech company HelioRec has reached a significant certification milestone for its near-shore floating solar system.

A woman fitted with a chip in her brain has been able to write her name for the first time in 20 years using only her thoughts.

Former President Joe Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act already had flaws, but now his successor’s administration’s approach is complicating matters further.

Since 2002, all of Earth’s continents have experienced “unprecedented freshwater loss” driven by climate change, unsustainable groundwater use and extreme droughts, new satellite observations have revealed.

French clean-tech company HelioRec has reached a significant certification milestone for its near-shore floating solar system.

A woman fitted with a chip in her brain has been able to write her name for the first time in 20 years using only her thoughts.

The fusion industry raised $2.64bn in private and public funding in the past 12 months – a 178% rise from the previous year – according to a report by the Fusion Industry Association.

A major report into the England and Wales’ ‘broken’ water industry has set out key recommendations for reform, including the scrapping of current water regulator Ofwat.