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An international team of scientists has concluded that 'highly protected' marine reserves can help mitigate the effects of climate change and suggests that these areas be expanded and better managed throughout the world.Globally, coastal nations have committed to protecting 10%of their waters by 2020, but thus far only 3.5%of the ocean has been set aside for protection - and less than half of that (1.6%) is strongly protected from exploitation.

Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.

General Sir Chris Deverell KCB MBE ADC Gen, Commander, Joint Forces Commandwill be delivering a keynote address at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition on 12th September.

One of the UK’s leading stem cell storage and diagnostics companies has claimed that stem cell technology could mean the difference between life and death in any attempt to travel beyond the planet Earth to Mars, claiming that advanced medical techniques will be required to cope with the rigours of interplanetary space.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier KCB CBE DFC, Chief of the Air Staff,will be delivering a keynote address at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition on 13th September. The event is expected to be the sector’s most comprehensive presentation of defence, military aerospace and security capabilities, when it takes place at ExCeL London later this year.

Kontron and CSiT have announced that CSiT's TRANSIS-Train communications system which is powered by Kontron's TRACe transportation computing products is in the process of being qualified by a large North America municipal transit agency.The TRANSIS on-board system will be installed during the next two weeks in an operational setting so the transit authority can test and validate its multi-modal integrated public address, passenger infotainment, m...

A contract on manufacturing civil products for space industry for the amount of 250m rubles (£3.5m) has been signed between the leading company of the concern 'RT-Chemcomposite', part of Rostec State, Obninsk SPE 'Technologiya' and Lavochkin Research and Production Association. The contract implies the participation of Romashin Obninsk SPE 'Technologiya' in the international project 'Ekzo Mars-2020'. The document was signed on 10thApril 201...

General Sir Nick Carter KCB CBE DSO ADC Gen, Chief of the General Staff, will be delivering a keynote address at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition on 13th September. The event is expected to be the sector’s most comprehensive presentation of defence, military aerospace and security capabilities, when it takes place at ExCeL London later this year.

The term ‘smart manufacturing’ is flying around more often than not, but what does it actually mean?Chris Evans, Marketing and Operations Group Manager at Mitsubishi Electric, here explore, what is meant by the term, and considers the benefits of adopting the concept and what challenges may lay ahead.

Steve Rogerson looks at some of the news that may have missed the front page. As April Fool’s Day fell on a Saturday this year, it was not hard to spot the joke press releases, and the car companies as usual were at their best with Honda’s in-car dating app and MG’s voice controlled emoji windscreens. And well done Waze for its satellite navigation app for, wait for it, Mars. However, I never did work out whether Fenix Group was...