Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Researchers at the University of Manchester have produced both the first commercial application of graphene and the world's first graphene light-bulb. Longer lasting, cheaper to run and make than LEDs, it may well revolutionize lighting. It is also promised to be on sale in just months.

Researchers from King’s College London and Sheffield Hallam University have developed a robot assistant for firefighters to help guide them through even the thickest smoke. Using a set of reins that provide haptic feedback, the prototype robot is designed to alert the user to obstacles in its path.

X-rays don't always show bones as being sharply defined from the surrounding tissue. Now, however, free software known as BoneFinder is able to draw outlines around bones automatically.

A new prototype flexible display created by the University of Cambridge and UK firm Plastic Logic, represents the first time graphene has been used in a transistor-based flexible screen and may well provide the least expensive, easiest to manufacture solution for these devices yet.

Dieters take note! It may soon be possible to buy low-fat cakes and cheeses that have the same taste and texture as their waistline-increasing counterparts. New research has resulted in a method of using proteins to "fill in" for fats.

Cartilage grown in a flat Petri dish may not be optimally-shaped for replacing the body's own natural cartilage parts. Scientists from a consortium of UK universities, however, are developing a possible solution. They're using "ultrasonic tweezers" to grow cartilage in mid-air.

Unlike experimental laser-based tractor beams that so far have only been able to influence targets at the microscopic level so far, researchers from the University of Dundee have created a tractor beam using ultrasonic energy to move macro (>1 cm) objects towards the energy source.

Andrew McPherson and Victor Zappi have designed and built a deliberately simple instrument that produces tones when a player's fingers touch, tap or slide a capacitive sensing strip on one of the wooden cube's faces.

Of all the things that we regularly dispose of, you would think that shoes would be one of the most difficult to recycle. Nonetheless, British scientists have created and trialled "the world’s first comprehensive system for separating and recovering useful materials from old footwear."

A new project dubbed the “Personal Appointment Ticketing service” (or PAT) aims to help homeless people keep their appointments.

Scientists have created a 3D printer that makes chocolates in shapes determined by the user.

Researchers from the UK are developing a wearable solar/thermoelectric power system for soldiers, to lessen the battery weight they have to carry in the field.