Engineering News Articles

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.

Redefining a unit of measurement that was invented in 1799 has required the entire metric system to change.

A holey piece of swiss-cheese plastic can do complex maths in a millionth of a second

A new device turns injections into drugs you can swallow...

Sun-soaked device cleans up water and produces superheated steam.

Is this graphene 2.0?

Using the power of tiny magnets, a team at Stanford have captured cancer cells circulating in the blood

A way to target cancer by re-programming the immune system to attack tumours has been discovered by scientists in the...

For the first time ever, a robot has been used to perform surgery on the human eye

Driverless cars used to be something that only appeared in science fiction, but they’re swiftly becoming a reality....

New hair-thin brain probe could revolutionise how we record brain activity

Carbon nanotubes could be as bad for you as asbestos, a new UK study has shown.

Our hairy insides protect us from the full force of fluids racing through our bodies and may inspire future robotic...

Repairing damaged organs with injectable tissue bandages may only be a heartbeat away ...

At ten thousand times smaller than a human hair, chemists in Manchester, England, have tied the world's tiniest...

Plants that use nanoparticles to pick up the presence of pollution, or even explosives, have been engineered by...

Electronic nose senses pesticides and terrorism threats.

A new, non-stick surface for shampoo bottles could boost recycling.