Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

X-rays don't always show bones as being sharply defined from the surrounding tissue. Now, however, free software known as BoneFinder is able to draw outlines around bones automatically.

Cartilage grown in a flat Petri dish may not be optimally-shaped for replacing the body's own natural cartilage parts. Scientists from a consortium of UK universities, however, are developing a possible solution. They're using "ultrasonic tweezers" to grow cartilage in mid-air.

Unlike experimental laser-based tractor beams that so far have only been able to influence targets at the microscopic level so far, researchers from the University of Dundee have created a tractor beam using ultrasonic energy to move macro (>1 cm) objects towards the energy source.

Of all the things that we regularly dispose of, you would think that shoes would be one of the most difficult to recycle. Nonetheless, British scientists have created and trialled "the world’s first comprehensive system for separating and recovering useful materials from old footwear."

Scientists have created a 3D printer that makes chocolates in shapes determined by the user.

Mathematicians are creating a new "periodic table" that will provide a directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking shapes in the same way as the periodic table links chemical elements.

A research project at Glasgow Caledonian University is currently taking a close look at why a certain piece of music evokes a particular emotive response

A portable magnetometer being developed at the University of Leeds could dramatically simplify and improve the process of diagnosing heart conditions.