4+ hour, 26+ min ago   (359+ words) Reporting for BBC Tech Now, Adrienne Murray follows surgeons in Copenhagen as they use advanced 3D imaging to plan and perform complex heart procedures, aiming to improve accuracy and patient outcomes. This video is from Tech Now, the BBC's flagship technology…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (278+ words) Rolls Royce has announced that a new "state of the art" £100m research and testing facility is to be built near Bristol. Work on the new testing, research and innovation facility at the firm's Filton site is expected to begin later…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (466+ words) Scale replicas of 2,000-year-old skeletons unearthed in Dorset have been 3D-printed for members of the public to view and handle. More than 100 Iron Age burials have been unearthed at Winterborne Kingston in Dorset by Bournemouth University archaeologists since 2009. Digital records…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (397+ words) A 17-year-old boy says opening his own 3D printing business has helped him to improve his social skills and learn about "banter". Reece, from Worksop in Nottinghamshire, told the BBC he struggled to make friends when he was younger due to…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1435+ words) New materials designed by artificial intelligence promise to provide stronger hip replacements and improve how fractures heal. A few years ago, Amir Zadpoor was searching for a peculiar new material. He needed one that would get thicker when stretched, yet…...

5+ mon, 23+ hour ago   (44+ words) BBC Artist sews portraits using pedal-powered machine Artist Harriet Riddell, from Hampshire, gets members of the public to cycle on a bike to power up a generator for her sewing machine - while she stitches their portrait....

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1060+ words) Screams filled the laboratory – screams, thankfully, of joy. Akib Zaman, a PhD candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had just made a mini chair appear, seemingly out of nowhere. He had pulled a thread attached to a flat, rectangular…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (596+ words) It sounds like science fiction - a factory, located hundreds of kilometres above the Earth, churning out high-quality materials. But a Cardiff-based company is a step closer to making this a reality. Space Forge have sent a microwave-sized factory into orbit,…...

9+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (1213+ words) The final test was a blunt one. Maarten Logtenberg wielded a sledgehammer, which simply bounced off the sample, barely leaving a scratch. After two years of experimentation, the material was finally right: a particular mix of thermoplastics and fibreglass that…...

10+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1085+ words) Sixty years ago engineer Denys Fisher settled down to relax on a Sunday night listening to a spot of classical music. Within minutes he was hit by a Eureka moment which solved a problem he'd been wrestling with for months…...