Engineering News Stories

A fabric ear containing special fibres that detect sound

The films that grow on top of fermenting Kombucha could be repurposed to filter water

A passive air sampler can measure personal exposure to coronavirus...

New textile that protects from direct sunlight means people may soon be wearing their own air conditioners

A new milestone in nuclear fusion research was achieved at the largest laser facility in the world.

Now is the right time to bring that old phone in your drawer to a collection point

A novel type of fully implantable temporary pacemaker has been developed that naturally absorbs into the body

Mining without the digging...

A robot balances better than ever before by learning from human behaviour...

Scientists debate the carbon cost of binging on a box-set...

How can you improve flood resilience, biodiversity and tourism? Beavers!

An expandable heart valve could spare millions from multiple, hazardous heart surgeries...

The energy stored in wastewater could power the equivalent of every single household in the US and Mexico

Moving data at 100 gigabytes per second: that's 25 movies in under a second...

New research finds 80% of climate warming due to contrails comes from 2% of flights.

Engineers claim to have developed a battery technology for super-quick charging of electric vehicles…

Twisting and untwisting fibres could become the mechanism for more environmentally friendly fridges...

Magnetic springs to break down microplastics

Oil wastewater is produced by oil companies and has been linked to increases in earthquake magnitude.

A device that desalinates water, whilst producing electricity using solar power at the same time...

Engineers have developed a robot that can harvest lettuces.

Robots that assemble like Lego promise to be safer, cheaper and more efficient...

Breakthrough makes new catalyst technology possible...

Engineers have found a cheap way to measure the hand’s sense of touch - paving the way to better prosthetics.