To high heaven: As space elevators move from the realm of science fiction to reality, our panel of experts answers your questions
From sub-surface freight delivery tubes, to space elevators for ferrying workers to off-planet manufacturing facilities, resident science fiction writer Gareth L. Powell ponders some of the ingenious...
Dr Hilary Leevers, Chief Executive of EngineeringUK, explains why the shortage of science, technology, engineering and maths teachers is a concern and how we help.
Prof Richard Kitney, head of Imperial college’s newly-launched Institute of Systems Biology, believes the application of engineering techniques can revolutionise medical science. Jon Excell reports.
The House of Commons Committee for Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills published a report late last week on engineering and its place in government policy.
With ‘UFOs’ grabbing the headlines recently, science fiction author Gareth L Powell speculates on the potential engineering challenges of safely visiting an inhabited alien wold
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers use numerical simulation to evaluate and optimise the proposed design of the Advanced Divertor experiment — a compact nuclear fusion machine that packs...
A new report from the IET has urged a rethink on engineering in schools, calling for the subject to be embedded in both primary and secondary education, and linked to maths and science.
Novelist Jon Wallace considers the science fiction implications of engineering stories that have caught his eye. This month, the future pros and cons of driverless cars
The first glimpses of the world inside the atom set The Engineer on a speculative path, replete with digs at pure scientists and science fiction writers and hope of new materials and inexhaustible...
