4/7/2026 2:47:21 PM Water Purification in Space By Yun-Hang Cho Eng Shan Sustaining life in outer Space is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks humanity has ever faced. There is no air, food, water or...
4/7/2026 2:47:14 PM From Moon Missions to Modern Workshops: The Evolution of NASA’s Cordless Drills and Their Earthbound Impact By Yun-Hang Cho NASA’s early need for cordless, portable drilling equipment during the Gemini and Apollo programs profoundly accelerated the evolution of...
4/7/2026 2:47:08 PM Space Technologies for Food Security By Violet Lee Space agriculture plays a crucial role in sustaining life within closed environments such as long-duration space missions and planetary...
4/7/2026 2:46:08 PM The Voyager spacecraft had compressed images of rice on board...? By Yun-Hang Cho In 1977, NASA's Voyager program was launched from Earth, eventually becoming the longest space mission to date, and the only one flying...
4/7/2026 2:44:09 PM 3D Printing in Space and Singapore's Role By Edward Ng On 25 November 2014, astronaut Barry Wilmore reached into a machine aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and pulled out a small...
3/10/2026 10:56:37 AM Where Waste Becomes Opportunity By Mairi Rudkin Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Carbon-Loop Sustainable Manufacturing Launch Event, held in the magnificent surroundings of...
2/23/2026 11:41:07 AM Out of the frying pan and into the fly-er By Giles Pinnington “That's my retirement grease!” cries Groundskeeper Willie as Homer and Bart are discovered pilfering the oil from the school's deep fat...
2/4/2026 3:45:07 PM Cher(r)y on top for Liverpool automotive HQ By Giles Pinnington It is great to see that Chery Commercial Vehicle has announced that it will be establishing its European headquarters in my home city of...
1/26/2026 12:51:38 PM Magnet Recycling Plant Opens in Birmingham By Peter Youle As with most processes, recycling relies heavily on machinery that is predominantly formed from ferrous metals. How then, do you process...
1/9/2026 12:26:38 PM Cambridge Science pushing ahead By Tom Grendon If you have been following along with our recent Green Growth series, you will have seen some of the fantastic developments and progress...
12/15/2025 11:28:37 AM M&C in the news: Green chemistry, grey areas – understanding patent protection for sustainable materials By M&C Newsroom In a recent article for the Chemical Industry Journal, Senior Associate, Peter Youle, examines how patent law applies to sustainable...
12/10/2025 10:52:07 AM Levelling-up Solar power By Tom Grendon In recent years, solar power has become a key part of the transition to a green economy, and to decarbonising the energy that we each...
12/9/2025 10:58:37 AM UK Government Announces UK-Germany Collaboration to develop EV technology By Rhyan Probert The UK Government have recently announced the IGNITED project, which aims to develop an ultra-compact, high-power electric drive system...
11/25/2025 2:36:38 PM Nuclear IP 2025 Trends: Continuing Chinese Dominance, US & South Korea Emerge By Bovey Zheng In 2023, Giles Pinnington considered filing trends for nuclear energy-related patents in the context of discussing the nuclear landscape...
11/11/2025 1:27:39 PM Building momentum: 5 years on from Glasgow COP26 By David Murray It’s been 5 years now since the World descended on Glasgow for COP26 and 10 years since the Paris Agreement, with delegates and political...
10/23/2025 9:30:39 AM Mechanochemical Recycling of Teflon® By Peter Youle Researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Newcastle have developed a simple, mechanochemical method for processing...