Features

Winds of change: power in a new decade

As the world wakes up to its climate responsibilities, Scotland's proving it's credentials as a green crusader.

Wind Power

Scotland's wind power potential is vast, but major announcements in January 2010 have raised the stakes.

Life Science Scotland Signals the Way Ahead

Sir Philip Cohen is a patient man. Since the early 1970s he has dedicated himself to understanding one of the bodys principal control mechanisms and how it becomes deregulated in human disease.

Drug discovery and development

Penicillin, beta-blockers, interferon, anti-ulcer drugs, anti-asthma treatments and a whole host of other medical innovations owe their development wholly, or in part, to the work pioneered in Scotland.

The development of ultrasound

Now a standard feature on hospital wards, ultrasound was developed over fifty years ago by a team of researchers in Glasgow.

Caring for life: a Scots passion

We look at Scotland's role in the life sciences industry, and examine our contribution to the sector.

Magic Munro

We celebrate Ben Cruachan Hydroelectric power plant, and look at Scotland's commitment to renewable energy targets.

Renewable energy, a more sustainable future

We look at what Scotland is doing to harness the massive energy created by the powerful waves around Scottish shores.

A Scots Trail in Singapore

Singapore and its traces of Scottish ingenuity go all the way back to colonial days.

Medical milestones

A dispatch from the front on how Scotland is combating the Big C.