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Researchers at Imperial are analysing the reasons people don't get their gadgets repaired, and suggesting measures to change their minds. Repairing broken household electrical devices rather than throwing them away has all kinds of environmental benefits. There is less waste, obviously, but you also save all the energy, materials and emissions involved in making a replacement, to say nothing of the emissions and congestion involved in transporting it to the consumer.

Public awareness is needed to tackle the rapidly growing problem of electronics waste - and the outlook is stark if it's ignored - according to an e-waste expert from the University of Southampton.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has funded a new mission concept involving a "swarm" of satellites to tackle the growing threat of space debris.

Imperial College London is leading the UK arm of a global effort to create 100% renewable energy power grids worldwide.

People across Kenya were mysteriously plunged into darkness last month as the country suffered its worst power outage in a generation - except for a tiny remote village.

Cardiff University has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult.

National Grid and The University of Manchester have been named 'Best Innovation in Net Zero and Sustainability' at the E&T Innovation Awards for their commitment to developing a retrofill solution to replace SF6.

National Grid and The University of Manchester are to collaborate on a four-year project to develop a full-scale demonstrator at the Deeside Centre for Innovation, designed to test at scale how the UK can retrofill SF6 across its network of high-voltage equipment.

A new research project is setting out to find a solution to the growing problem of electronic waste by creating the world's first controlled degradable integrated circuits. Researchers from the University of Glasgow's James Watt School of Engineering have won a £1.5m grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for the project.

The University of Manchester's Electromagnetic (EM) Sensing Group has showcased its work relating to the production of landmine detection technologies at the Royal Society Summer Science 2021 Exhibition.

· Lead-acid batteries are an established alternative to Li-ion batteries as they are simpler safer to use and are recyclable · How to increase the lifespan and health of batteries will be researched by WMG, University of Warwick, in collaboration with Loughborough University.

The tiniest microchips yet can be made from graphene and other 2D-materials, using a form of 'nano-origami', physicists at the University of Sussex have found.

Academics, designers and students discussed the design challenges of moving to Mars and potential solutions during a symposium at the Design Museum.

A tax on carbon dioxide emissions in Great Britain, introduced in 2013, has led to the proportion of electricity generated from coal falling from 40% to 3% over six years, according to research led by UCL.

For This is Engineering day, an Imperial PhD student and the Royal Academy of Engineering found out what the average engineer means to search engines.

Our scientists have helped to solve a puzzle that could lead to cheaper and more efficient solar power.

A recent University of Cambridge spin-out company, Paragraf, has started producing graphene - a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick - at up to eight inches in diameter, large enough for commercial electronic devices.

A new green technology to generate electricity from discarded cocoa pod husks is set to benefit African farming communities currently with little or no access to grid power. The project, led by the University of Nottingham, aims to spawn an entirely new bio-fuel industry that would also improve socio-economic stability for cocoa producers in rural Ghana.

Scientists from around the world visited the University of Bristol last week to hear progress on the important Gallium Nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond microwave technology.

High speed internet could be delivered through the lights in homes and offices, revolutionising the way we download and upload information in the future, finds UCL researchers. Academics from UCL, Northumbria University and Newcastle University are developing a new type of organic LED (light-emitting diode) which will communicate with smart devices such as tablets and phones to download and upload huge amounts of data.

A multidisciplinary team of engineers from the University of Nottingham and Teledyne e2v are to receive this year's Colin Campbell Mitchell Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering for developing MicroHammer, a revolutionary process for extracting copper from its ore using microwave technology.