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The Engineer

Product design: first impressions count

Cancer imaging centres to benefit from £35million funding

Dolphin 'sonar' inspires clutter-penetrating radar

The week ahead: High speed trains, energy bills and electric vehicles come under scrutiny

3D printing with riboflavin creates polymer medical implants

Efficient solar cells from light-capturing quasi-crystals

Recent promises are promising for tomorrow’s engineers

Diagnostic device promises earlier detection of cancer

Biochar used to produce supercapacitors

Missing the Hinkley point

Fixation on detail: Up close to the prototype of Babbage’s difference engine in London’s Science Museum. This model was built many years after Babbage’s death, to his own plans. It works perfectly

October 1871: Obituary of Charles Babbage

Researchers take printing into the fourth dimension