People aged between 14 and 24 are invited to take part in an essay-writing competition that is intended to raise the profile of engineering and technology among young people.

BP is to fund a $9.4 million project by The Energy and Resources Institute in India to demonstrate the feasibility of producing biodiesel from Jatropha Curcas, an oil bearing crop.

Attempts to use modern tech- nology to monitor the healthiness or otherwise of food are laudable but can only ever scratch the surface of the problem of obesity and poor diet.

Before Tower Bridge took its place on the London skyline, people had to go underground to cross the river. The Engineer described the construction of the now-forgotten Tower Subway, a forerunner of...

Stephen Salter, the father of wave power, has seen technology fall from favour only to come back into fashion. His new device aims to tackle global warming. Stuart Nathan reports

Developing countries will be producing at least twice as much electronic waste as developed countries within the next six to eight years, according to a new study published in the American Chemical...

A nanoscale sensor technology to image and measure the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures could lead to new materials, or new phases of matter with numerous applications.

The UK's largest university space research group has secured contracts to supply equipment for the James Webb Space Telescope, and to test equipment for ESA’s Gaia star-mapping mission.

Almost half of companies in the IT and engineering sectors are not planning on recruiting staff over the next 12 months, due to a lack of suitably skilled candidates, according to research from the...

Airships represent a branch of the aerospace industry that has always struggled to find a role.