Energy and sustainability

By 2050, the world will have an additional 2.5 billion mouths to feed. Vertical farms could help to sustain this growing population.

Global food and water security is a key priority; our ability to deliver it is not only uncertain, but an increasingly complex problem.

Arthur Woniala discusses his work on Khainza Energy Gas, creating cleaner fuels in order to reduce smoke exposure in Uganda.

Advances in materials science will enable our offshore wind turbines to operate at higher power in higher wind speeds.

Ladakh, ‘the land of high passes’, lies high in the mountains of northern India, resting against the Tibetan border. Although one of the most sparsely…

Greenpower is an electric car challenge that requires students, guided by their teachers and industry mentors, to design, build and then race an electric car.

At five-to-the-dollar, this paper centrifuge could bring precise diagnosis and treatment to those who need it the most.

NASA have revealed details of their experimental electric aeroplane, complete with fourteen electrical motors.

Bertrand Piccard successfully completed a world-first in transatlantic crossings, without using a single drop of fuel.