Mark PriskMinister of State for Industry

Getting money back from Gordon Brown rather than watch it flow out the other way sounds innovative indeed. Happily for technology-led businesses, innovation in the form of R&D can bring about this...

A previously unknown zinc oxide nanostructure that resembles the helical configuration of DNA could provide engineers with a new building block for creating nanometre-scale sensors.

Alan Lusty, a former apprentice and current CEO of adi, speaks on half a decade of success in developing young careers, the challenges ahead and why he isn’t stopping anytime soon.

With its reputation for technology-driven manufacturing the east midlands is now looking towards a multi-disciplinary focus on innovation for sustainability. Berenice Baker reports.

WWII ended in 1945 but - as The Engineer reported in January 1946 - it wasn’t long before hostilities broke out in the civil aerospace market

Civil engineering has proved increasingly attractive for women, despite a low level of women in engineering as a whole. Evelyn Adams looks at why this might be. 

A low-cost solar cell that imitates photosynthesis opens up new applications for photovoltaics.