Project management is second nature to our anonymous blogger, apart from when it comes to Christmas. The secret engineer wonders why we rarely apply workplace-honed management skills to our daily...
3D printing could become a viable option for customising radiology treatments to individual patient needs, with doctors having the ability to construct devices to a specific size and shape.
The ability of some forms of plankton to build an extra natural layer of nanoparticle-like armour has inspired chemists at Warwick University to devise a way to give drug-bearing polymer vesicles...
A technique previously confined to bulky, power-hungry equipment that could only be used in a lab is now small enough to be swallowed to detect cancers in the digestive system
The National Physical Laboratory and Surrey University are to collaborate on the delivery of a £10m programme to develop three key areas of technology set to benefit the UK economy.
Nexans has secured a contract with Global Marine Systems to supply a repeatered fibre optic submarine cable to connect the islands of Trinidad and Tobago to Suriname via Guyana.
Football fans can look forward to personalised coverage of this year’s World Cup, thanks to the Servingo portal, being presented to the public at CeBIT.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =...
Plans to build a new nuclear power station in Cumbria have suffered a set-back following Toshiba’s decision to wind up NuGen, the company set up to build the plant.
A film-coating that allows windows to harvest the sun’s energy in the winter to warm a house and reflect it in the summer to keep it cool is under development in an Anglo-US project.
The UK energy sector is likely to be urged to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on supercritical boiler technology in a bid to cut pollution from the nation’s ageing coal-fired power plants.
