Can lightning charge a mobile phone?
Scientists from Southampton have collaborated with a mobile phone firm to see if they can harness the power of lightning for personal use.
Sunny delight for 1,500 homes
Local residents have successfully taken over a solar farm - making it the largest community owned solar farm in the world.
Rebooting the oldest computer
Roger Holmes and Rod Brown have restored a 50-year-old computer that takes up a whole room.
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Oliver, 6, takes the perfect picture
Click video. How good are you at taking photographs? At the age of just six, Oliver Andreas Jones has a quite remarkable portfolio. From sunflowers, to the West Pier in Brighton, Oliver has travelled all over the country - at all hours of the day - to snap the perfect picture.
Stolen iPad traced by tracking device
Detectives investigating the theft of a tablet device from Tunbridge Wells have recovered the device after the owner tracked it to London.
Detectives from Tonbridge police station attended an address in Lewisham and seized the tablet, which was packaged up, ready to be posted abroad. A 65-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of theft, and was later released on bail.
Kent Police said: ‘This is a fantastic example of how important it is for tablet and mobile phone owners to take advantage of the tracking applications that are available for devices that have GPS capability. In this case the victim tracked the iPad and kept us updated with its location."
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What driving in the future could look like
The driverless pods that could actually become a reality.
Creating the cars of the future
The government have launched funds for automotive companies to develop more energy efficient cars.
The £75 million fund will enable businesses to make and test new low carbon technologies.
The announcement was made by Vince Cable today.
He also announced a £1.5 million project that will test driverless cars.
The 'pods' will be able to carry two people and will run on designated pathways in Milton Keynes city centre.
It is planned in 2015 that 20 pods will be driver-operated and will run on lanes separated from pedestrians.
By 2017, 100 pods will use sensors to avoid obstacles and will run alongside pedestrians.
Portsmouth aircraft carriers cost 'to double'
The price tag for the Royal Navy's new Portsmouth-based aircraft carriers is set to top more
than £6bn as the Government prepares to announce further cost overruns, according to reports.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is expected to announce the projected cost of the two carriers - which will not enter service until the end of the decade - has risen by another £800m to £6.2bn.
The latest increase means the bill for the 65,000-ton ships will be almost double the £3.5bn estimated when the programme was agreed by the last Labour government in 2007.
£6billion train contract given to Maidenhead's Hitachi
Business Secretary Vince Cable and Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin - were at the site of a new £82 million factory today - where a new generation of high speed trains for the Thames Valley will be built.
'Inter City Express' is part of a £6billion contract awarded to Maidenhead based Hitachi.
Mr McLoughlin says it means the current 40-year-old First Great Western trains will be replaced:
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Students design new voice simulator
Ee're all familiar with the robotic sound of a synthized voice - the sort of device used by Professor Stephen Hawking. A team of students in Hampshire have invented a way of using a person's real voice in the same way.
It's won them a prestigious design award at IBM's technology labs in Hampshire. Richard Slee reports.
VIDEO: Newest tech to help save roadworkers' lives
They do an essential job keeping our roads safe but their own safety has been called into question.
Over the last three years two engineers have been killed while working on the roads here in the south. Now new technology is being brought in to protect them.
Andy Dickenson reports and speaks to John McNiffe, project manager of the Handcross widening scheme. This report also contains an excerpt from the Highways Agency advertising campaign.
Supercomputer makes a trillion calculations per second
The University of Southampton has turned on the most powerful university-based supercomputer in England, named Iridis4.
It will be used for research by University staff and students in engineering, archaeology, medicine and computer science.
Dr Oz Parchment, Director of Research Computing at the University said, "Southampton is a leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Iridis4 allows us to take another leap forward to keep pace with the needs of our world-class researchers."
In a deal worth £3.2 million, Southampton's new supercomputer is four times more powerful than its predecessor and has the skills to take control of some of the most demanding mathematical calculation, making one trillion calculation per second.
Mobile phone signal reaches Dorset village
Video. It's claimed that tensions between Government departments are holding up improvements to mobile phone coverage in the countryside.
It comes as a trial is taking place in Dorset with a new system to beef up mobile coverage. Political reporter Robert Murphy has the story.
