A new 3D-printed acoustic metamaterial can block 94% of sounds using an open, ring-like structure.

The Davidge Award is an annual prize for the best literature review by a PhD student on an innovative topic in ceramics. The award is run and judged by the Editors of Advances in Applied Ceramics: Structural, Functional and Bioceramics (AAC), the specialist ceramics journal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), and is open to postgraduates studying for a materials science and engineering related qualification at any academic institution worldwide.

Graphene could one day become a common engineering as researchers develop it in a soft, kneadable dough form. Katherine Williams found out more.

From graphene to the world’s largest offshore windfarm, Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry MP tells us why the resurgent North of England is driving the UK into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.