The Engineer’s resident science fiction writer, Jon Wallace, is relinquishing his hold on our crystal ball, and we’re looking for a successor.

When bleak dystopian nightmares become a reality it will be engineers who help us adapt to a hostile new world writes resident science fiction author Gareth L Powell.

EADS is furthering its Research and Technology activities with Singaporean research agency A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) in its National Aerospace Programme.

The UK government’s response to the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee’s report is a sure step towards putting engineering at the top of the political agenda.

An £80m shortfall in funding for the Science and Technology Facilities Council has led to uncertainties over the future of some of the most iconic astronomical and particle physics research in the UK

News editorA festival at the Science Museum looks at how technology might help humans to ’upgrade’ themselves, while the UK’s quantum technologies have heir day in the sun.

Editor Pfizer’s proposed takeover of AstraZeneca is worrying for the UK’s science base but, if lessons are learned from other areas of industry, doesn’t have to be disastrous

The public want more government support for students taking on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) degrees, according to a new poll by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

Southampton University has announced that it is developing new unmanned aircraft for science applications and geoscientific research.

Features editor In a roundabout way via the Olympic Park and the Science Museum, Lord Byron’s baleful poetic influence might prove that engineering is the ultimate creative endeavour