GM non-browning apples were set to go on sale for the first time as C&I went to press in November 2017.
US scientists have stored bytes of data in a smart fabric, by using conductive threads.
A purification technology relying on nanoparticles aims to tackle sepsis, one of the top 10 leading causes of death.
Graham Mackrell, Managing Director at Harmonic Drive UK, on the increasing market effect of robotics.
Nature’s wetlands are brilliant at cleaning up wastewater. Litre for litre, artificial ecosystems created with wetland plants and microbes are 1/20th the cost of standard municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Bacteria like talking to each other. They also like hanging out together in rogue communities known as biofilms that wreak havoc everywhere from medical devices to industry pipelines and bathrooms.
Four key chemical industry value chains - buildings, transport, renewable power and food packaging - could provide solutions to enable significant emission reductions in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement on climate change.
In May 2018, the first full-scale mobile marine plastics collection system, developed by The Ocean Cleanup, will leave San Francisco, California, bound for the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch,’ also known as the Pacific trash vortex.
The latest ‘meta-materials’, if commercialised, could vastly improve the gathering and storing of energy.