CSIRO, the national science agency of Australia, is building the largest solar-power tower of its type in the world at the National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle, New South Wales.
This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Caroline Bradley, Cable Engineering Manager at National Grid, talks about her career experiences, the huge opportunity for women to join the...
The Glasgow Exhibition of 1888 was a triumph for a city proud of its art, science and industrial heritage. Its aim was to draw international attention to its achievements and succeeded in raising...
With the recent popularity of shows such as The Walking Dead and The Last of Us, our resident science fiction author, Gareth L. Powell, asks what roles there will be for engineers in such a strange...
Engineers at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have used an origami design to create a vacuum-powered soft gripper capable of lifting objects more than 100 times its...
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NASA engineers believe that an instrument used by the US military to detect noxious substances in air could also become the "nose" for a Mars rover to detect gases in the atmosphere that will indicate...