Waste heat from supercomputer to warm UK homes

The University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility could use excess energy to heat around 5,000 households in Scotland’s capital

Scottish engineers make waves with cost-cutting turbine blade

Engineers at the University of Edinburgh have produced a blade which is expected to reduce the levelised cost of tidal energy

Edinburgh pioneers computing for low carbon energy

Edinburgh is set to host a cutting-edge exascale computing system, poised to transform AI, medicine and clean energy breakthroughs

Scottish scientists score £1m to trap CO2 in volcanic rocks

The team of scientists is working to confirm the viability of a process in which CO2 captured is turned into minerals by basalt volcanic rock

Heat pump cost reductions could be less than expected

Heat pump cost reductions may not happen as quickly as the government hopes, academics warn” says new research

‘World’s largest’ tidal turbine bid got UK royal treatment

The Princess Royal visited the testing facility of a €10 million project

Don’t look up: mind the debris between Earth and space!

An influx of debris is endangering the space environment, new research suggests

Plastic waste gets a vanilla flavour!

Scientists have developed a method to upcycle PET plastic into vanillin, a flavour compound used in the food and cosmetic industries

Melting away: Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017

The loss is equivalent to a 100-metre thick sheet of ice covering the whole of the UK, according to new research

Ofgem gives £9m to hydrogen research facility

Cash part of £12.7 million project investigating how transmission assets could transport hydrogen in the future