A UK team is developing technology to drill through the Antarctic ice to see what clues to the origin of life and the effects of climate change are locked in a lake below. Stuart Nathan reports
From swarming devices that get your online food order ready for delivery to the autonomous vehicles that will bring it to your front door, robots are poised to revolutionise the retail sector. Helen...
Last-week’s decision to give the go-ahead to the London Array offshore wind farm was a welcome boost to a renewables industry that has been hit hard by the economic downturn.
The BWEA has built up a £3.2m industry fund that it plans to use to develop advanced technologies designed to solve issues such as wind turbine interference with radar.
Stimulating the brain to focus on a specific subject during MRI scans proved a challenge to German researchers, who combined two technologies to project images inside a scanner. Stuart Nathan reports.
Features editorAttempts to create systems which allow drivers to access infotainment functions without distracting their attention run the danger of pandering to stupidity and overconfidence. We might...
Engineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a bacteria and yeast similar to the 'kombucha mother' used to ferment tea.
FISITA (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Ingénieurs des Techniques de l’Automobile) was founded in Paris in 1948. Its mission is to enable automotive engineering societies to connect with each...
Engineers have developed a soft material with metal-like conductivity and self-healing properties that is claimed to be the first to maintain enough electrical adhesion to support digital electronics...
According to a recent report, UK industry has been slow to take full advantage of the energy savings offered by variable speed drives. Colin Carter says now is the time to take stock of how your plant...
