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Ceramics Expohas announced that America’s largest free-to-attend event for the ceramics industry will return as planned from August 30th to September 1st 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio.

A multi-year Memorandum of Understanding signed between Subsea UK and TechWorks, the UK’s industry association for the deep tech community, will promote collaboration on critical and valuable areas in the development of underwater technology, helping to increase exports and create new jobs.

The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced the 15 inventors and inventor teams shortlisted as finalists for the 2021 edition of the European Inventor Award. The EPO’s prestigious annual innovation prize, now in its 15thyear, recognises outstanding inventors who have made an exceptional contribution to technology, society, and economic growth.

21st April marked the annual celebration ofWorld Creativity and Innovation Daywhich is a UN initiative that recognises creativity and innovation in all aspects of human development.In line with the celebrations, global cross-border payments company,WorldRemit, has carried out research to reveal some of the world’s most impactful inventions across the globe.

After years of preliminary work by NASA and a traversed flight distance of 292 million miles, the Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on 18th February 2021. One of the main goals of the Mars mission is to search for signs of primeval microbial life. The rover will analyse the geology of the planet and the climate of earlier times, and will be the first mission to collect and store Martian rocks and regolith (broken rocks and dust).

In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. Facebook then exited its similar project, but the Chinese aerospace industry, Airbus, Boeing, and NASA are progressing them very well.

Cadence Design Systems has acquired NUMECA International. The addition of NUMECA’s technologies and talent supports the Cadence Intelligent System Design strategy.

Optical Surfaces has received an order to supply the University of Oxford with three speciality glass prisms forcryogenic measurements for a study that will enable defining key components in the HARMONI spectrometer being developed for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

From the first successful Mars Rover mission in 1997, DC motors from maxon have been used in most successful robot missions to the Red Planet. Here Andrew Gibson, aerospace sales engineer at precision drives and motor specialists maxon UK, has discussed the secrets behind maxon’s success, and explores what it takes to make motors that can thrive in the challenging environment found on Mars.

Cadence Design Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NUMECA International, a specialist in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), mesh generation, multi-physics simulation and optimisation.