The Victorians combined brass and unprotected cogwheels in their great industrial sculptures of machines. But as design has evolved, the emphasis has swung from aesthetics to safety. Colin Carter...

The runners up in The Engineers' C2I 2020 medical & healthcare category made breakthroughs ranging from oral medicine and dialysis to low-cost foetal scanning. Andrew Wade reports.  

What began in 1945 as a one-man business based on a simple idea is now part of the industrial landscape: we’re talking about the Austrian family-owned company Fronius, which has grown over the past...

Areas as diverse as nuclear power stations, medical instruments and rail tracks need constant inspection to ensure they remain safe. Colin Carter looks at the variety of technology on offer

A pair of newly patented technologies may soon enable power-hungry imaging chips to use just a fraction of the energy used today and capture better images.

News editorEnvironmental and skills concerns add to the doubts over the future of the High Speed 2 project

Argonne Laboratory researchers are using advanced nanofabrication and nanocharacterisation instruments to open a new frontier in electronics.

A multidisciplinary US team develops a system to rapidly, cheaply and accurately diagnose diseases with similar symptoms

Biomechanics specialist Julian Morris has seen his company, Oxford Metrics Group, grow from small medical firm to major player in the film industry. Jon Excell reports

Plans to change school careers advice could mean fewer young people consider a job in engineering, professional bodies have warned.