Wilson’s worldDavid Wilson is editor of Engineeringtalk and Electronicstalk, and contributing editor to The Engineer
After six years or so of getting used to PLM as the 'catch-all' acronym for high end manufacturing technology, the alphabet soup that characterises technical software marketing seems to be nurturing a...
Eyebrows were raised this week over the scale of the police operation that led to the arrest - and subsequent release - of the 114 environmentalists believed to be planning protests at the Ratcliffe...
Implantable piezoelectric devices - powered by a patient’s walking motion - could be used to treat tendon damage and disease according to a team of researchers at the National University of Ireland in...
Visitors to London’s 2012 Olympics may travel to the games in taxis powered by hydrogen following the unveiling of a new prototype fuel cell black cab at City Hall yesterday.
HercuLine Smart actuators from Honeywell are designed to improve process profitability and product quality, as well as featuring fast configuration, responsive positioning and easy access to actuator...
Building on their previous work delivering cancer drugs with nanoparticles, MIT and Harvard researchers have turned their attention to cardiovascular disease, designing new particles that can cling to...
The European Commission has asked Ireland to change its tax law provision by which patent royalties are tax exempt only if research leading to the patent was carried out in Ireland.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has called for existing coal-fired power plants in the UK to be phased out in the next 10 to 15 years in a tweet following his speech at the UN climate summit in New...
Diamond Light Source - the giant Oxfordshire synchrotron that uses beams of extremely bright light to probe the properties of everything from fossils to jet engines – is being used by a team of...
