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£19.9 million has been allocated to Twycross Zoo to create a world-class National Science and Conservation Centre (NSCC).

• Updated: 17 January 2023

Leicester has been awarded £19.4 million from the Levelling Up Fund to develop new projects around the city’s Pioneer Park.

• Updated: 17 January 2023

The team at Berkeley Site has safely transferred the first concrete box of radioactive waste into the site’s purpose-built waste store.

• Updated: 16 January 2023

The first orbital satellite launch from the UK was attempted in January 2023.

• Updated: 16 January 2023

The UK and Saudi Arabia governments yesterday (Thursday 12 January) discussed ambitious plans for collaboration in space and innovation.

• Updated: 13 January 2023

South Oxfordshire District Council Planning Committee approves fusion energy project; construction to start this year at UKAEA's Culham Campus.

• Updated: 12 January 2023

Lord Ahmad, the UK’s Minister of State for the Middle East has undertaken a two-day official visit to Israel.

• Updated: 11 January 2023

Industry partner PA Consulting has worked with Dstl on prototype tools using advanced quantum principles alongside essential elements of human decision-making.

• Updated: 11 January 2023

Dstl and the US Air Force Research Laboratory carried out the first deployment of their jointly developed artificial intelligence toolbox in 2 military exercises.

• Updated: 5 January 2023

Two leading lights from the space sector, including one from the UK Space Agency, have been recognised in the New Year Honours list 2023

• Updated: 31 December 2022

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has received a total of £970,688 from BEIS’ Regulators’ Pioneer Fund for three projects that aim to unlock cutting edge regulatory innovation, to drive real worl…

• Updated: 19 December 2022

The government has today announced an extension to the Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme, to support UK Horizon Europe applicants.

• Updated: 19 December 2022

A UK-backed mission, which will observe huge swathes of ocean and surface water in unprecedented detail, has launched into space.

• Updated: 16 December 2022

Dstl will share new technical concepts for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in an age of AI and autonomy, at an event for industry and academia.

• Updated: 14 December 2022

The UK Space Agency has announced £2.7 million for 13 early-stage technology projects across England, Scotland and Wales to support the satellite launch sector

• Updated: 14 December 2022

UKAEA statement about National Ignition Facility results at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

• Updated: 13 December 2022

Start-ups to be given a share of an £1.85 million fund to help create a better transport system.

• Updated: 12 December 2022

The UK Space Agency is part of the SWOT mission, which is a global satellite survey of the Earth's surface water that observes the ocean's surface topography.

• Updated: 9 December 2022

The UK Space Agency and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) are to collaborate on the world’s first space battery powered by Americium-241.

• Updated: 9 December 2022

- Exchequer Secretary James Cartlidge hails power of future green technologies in strengthening UK’s energy security

• Updated: 8 December 2022