Viewpoint Voting for the Longitude Prize closes tomorrow. Here, Longitude Committee member and vice-president for external affairs at the Royal Academy of Engineering, Prof Martyn Thomas, explains how...
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new resonator claimed to create the purest, brightest and most powerful single-mode quantum cascade lasers in the range of 8–12 microns.
A new way of growing graphene without the defects could open the way to large-scale manufacturing of graphene-based devices with applications in fields such as electronics, energy, and healthcare.
Research reveals that 93 per cent of European public transport decision-makers are concerned about the capacity of their grid connection to fuel current and future battery-electric and...
An autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) is being used by a team of researchers hoping to find the aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart during her round-the-world flight in 1937.
The European Space Agency has unveiled details of the advanced engineering needed to meet one of space technology’s ultimate challenges — deflecting an asteroid from a collision course with Earth.
AquaLux 3D, a new projection technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, can target light onto and between individual water droplets, enabling text, video and other moving...
Centrica has reached an agreement with Hess to acquire a 67 per cent interest in the undeveloped York gas fields in the southern North Sea for £22m in cash.
A new lighting system being trialled at the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand aims to reduce pest contamination of sawn timber and logs in an environmentally friendly way.
The global air cargo market will continue its growth patterns of the past few years, with strong 20-year growth, according to the Current Market Outlook 2006 from Boeing.
