IBM’s Roadrunner at Los Alamos is set to win the race to be the world’s first computer to break the petaflop barrier, but it may not stay the fastest for long.
Thorium reactors, based on technology abandoned around the time of the Cold War, could provide an alternative to large nuclear reactors fuelled by solid uranium. They have many potential advantages,...
Incubation Awards: comprised of seed-funding awarded to dynamic individuals and teams. Incubation Awards will support design, exploration, and early execution of new, cutting-edge scientific...
As the news of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union sinks in, organisations representing the engineering and manufacturing sectors have been calling for as much stability as possible in the...
The London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony required a great deal of innovative — but hidden — engineering to make it work. Stephen Harris spoke to the engineers behind the spectacle.
Home computing pioneer and visionary UK inventor Sir Clive Sinclair has died at the age of 81. Back in 2003, The Engineer’s Rob Coppinger spoke to Sir Clive about another high-risk drive to create a...
