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An Aberdeen based business with a big idea for tackling climate change has competed against seven businesses selected from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England to win a Shell Springboard award of £40,000.

Collaborative links between Aberdeen and Mexico are set to be strengthened with the signing of Memoranda of Understanding with two of Mexico’s leading universities.

A ºÚÁÏÍø PhD student has won a prestigious new training award from The Royal Academy of Engineering.

Teachers are set to benefit under measures agreed between the ºÚÁÏÍø and the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS).

One of the ºÚÁÏÍø’s spin-out companies has triumphed once again at a major conference for the Scottish life sciences sector.

One of the ºÚÁÏÍø’s newest spin-out companies, B1 Medical, is celebrating winning a Scottish Enterprise Scottish Life Sciences Award at a ceremony held in Edinburgh last night (Thursday, February 8).

Deep within the stores of the ºÚÁÏÍø’s Marischal Museum have lain several beautiful black pots, originally from Peru and dating back 800 years. Very little has been known about them.

Five talented composers have beaten off competition from around the world to be shortlisted for the most prestigious prize in contemporary classical composition today.

A new £40 million royal research ship, the RRS James Cook, is formally named today (6 February 2007) by HRH The Princess Royal. The naming ceremony will be held at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

A leading magazine for scientists has deemed pioneering research at Aberdeen so important that it has included it in its guide to the Top 100 Science Stories of 2006.