UK renewables company Naked Energy has invented Virtu, a hybrid solar panel that simultaneously heats water and generates electricity.

Presented in order of the number of views they received on The Engineer website, the ten most read news stories represent a good cross-section of the subjects and industries we cover.

A team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) has developed a new method for 3D printing tiny electrodes that could improve the performance of...

Graylingwell Park, the UK’s largest carbon-neutral housing and retail development, has officially opened its £9m Energy Centre.

Warwick University researchers have devised a new way of controlling the speed and direction of motion of microscopic structures in water using chemically ‘motorised microscopic matchsticks’.

Transport for London (TfL) will equip its trams with automatic braking following recommendations made in the wake of the 2016 Croydon tram crash that killed seven people.

Cambridge researchers open up new applications for enhanced natural fibre

Engineers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a new lightweight method for de-icing aircraft using a web of carbon nanotubes.