Engineering technologies more at home on the factory floor are helping to solve some of history’s most enduring mysteries. Jon Excell reports.

The future of traditional shopping looks set to change dramatically as supermarkets and shops embrace a raft of electronic payment, shelf location and individual goods tagging systems.

The daily loss of three billion litres of water from England and Wales’s water pipes could be mitigated by micro-robots that inspect water pipes, diagnose cracks and fix them autonomously.

Stuart Nathan looks at the new train technologies being developed at Bombardier’s historic Litchurch Lane site

Inventor of the first successful steamboat and arguably the first ever practical submarine, American engineer Robert Fulton was one of the profession’s more colourful characters

Winning brief: BAE’s sports supremo explains how engineers can help maximise athletes’ performance.