The IET sets out its official position on the EU referendum this week - will you agree?
As the EU contemplates new laws to disrupt terror funding, Bitcoin supporters argue against hasty law-making.
Security is stranded in digital doldrums, so can we please start having the cybersecurity conversation?
Australia is making waves in the world of renewables. Perth-based Carnegie Wave Energy was the first company to connect wave energy technology to the grid. Now it is gearing up for the much bigger CETO 6 project.
The ¥389bn ($3.5bn) takeover of Japanese electronics giant Sharp by Taiwan&apos;s Hon Hai Precision Industries - better known as Foxconn - ends independence for the 100-year-old company that started out making belt buckles and mechanical pencils.
The problems at the Port Talbot steel plant have their roots in the 2007-2008 credit crisis.
The 21st century has been tagged as the Biological Century. Why does it need robots?
Microscopic spaceships powered by earthbound lasers are being developed to hunt for extra-terrestrial life in Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to ours.
The Skeye Nano Camera Drone, six-axis flight control, with a range of up to 50m.
Comment "if you ask me..." - Security: Are you ready for the increasing focus on cyber-risk?
Recent attacks on Ukraine&apos;s power grid mark an escalation in hostilities whose implications need to be noted across industry.
What do UK industry and academia think about being in or out of the European Union? Tereza Pultarova and Chris Titley talked to both camps to sift facts from myth.
BBC and its micro:bit allies decided that beginners needed a machine that would enable them to engage with coding at a simpler level. That&apos;s what the micro:bit is, a single-board computer that measures 4 cm by 5 cm. The micro:bit helps teach the children real-life ways of working with an application - you set a goal and make something work to achieve it. But teachers complain that it&apos;s too late to use them in this school year, and critics snipe that focusing on one age group won&apos;t ease the digital skills shortage. These issues are discussed more in depth in the paper.
You may remember the case of Ashya King, the boy who is currently cancer-free after being taken overseas for proton therapy, so it seems to be good news that in 2018, the UK&apos;s first National Health Service high-energy proton beam therapy facility will open. What are the challenges involved in bringing this game-changing treatment to Britain?
Toyota has been venturing into extreme carpentry, as it unveiled its Setsuna Wooden Concept car at Milan Design Week in April. The vehicle - powered by an electric motor - was constructed using a traditional Japanese joinery technique called okuriari, which doesn&apos;t use any nails or screws.
Twenty years ago electronics design faced a looming problem. The number of transistors that could be laid out on each chip was spiralling up towards the tens of millions. But hardware design lagged behind - engineers were not turning out circuits quickly enough. Extrapolating the numbers to the mid-2010s it looked as though the world&apos;s hardware designers could team up and maybe just about accumulate enough person-months to produce a single billion transistor chip design. Yet the design gap vanished almost as quickly as it appeared. In much the same way that designers at the board level moved from wiring logic functions together to using high-integration chips, the chip designers themselves started to buy in intellectual property (IF) offered by specialist companies such as ARM. Having passed the billion-transistor mark, the 1P-centric model has itself become a source of problems when it comes to checking that the final design works. The scale of the problem challenges traditional verification methods that were designed for smaller projects.
In the last issue, this paper looked at virtual reality worlds beyond gaming. Some of the most exciting applications involve interaction with other people where you are in a virtual place but you are all very much being yourselves, not alter egos. If you are trying to have a virtual work meeting with colleagues around the world you don&apos;t want to go to that meeting dressed as an orc wearing a natty line of animal furs or an alien with pointy ears; you&apos;d want to go as yourself. HP&apos;s avatar prototype is limited to a visual likeness of the right measurements but one day it could be made to replicate the way you walk or the way you talk.
For years, materials scientists have relied on their intuition to predict the properties of a novel material and then spent months constructing and characterising it - often only to find that it does not work the way they had hoped. In order to delve deeper into this vast chemical compounds space, materials experts have turned to computer science to extract and exploit information in big data, open data and the semantic web. Many groups around the world are applying insights from various fields, including pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence and data topology, to take a lot of the guesswork out of the materials discovery process. With less time spent on characterisation and more coming up with ideas for new materials, many believe we are in a golden age of materials discovery, and with techniques to improve the discovery and design process being refined every day, be sure to expect to hear about the next wonder material that will improve your life soon.
Think holidays are all about buckets, spades and beaches? Now, instead of a tan, you can come back from your break with greater understanding of the universe. So save on the sunblock, and look at the engineering tours on offer.
How broken is the Internet?
Is the Internet broken? Its been pushed way past its design objectives. But amid incessant criminal activity and a growing data deluge, sticking plasters may still be enough to hold it all together.
Car makers look to electronics, electrification and sophisticated modelling for the next wave of efficiency gains in diesel engines.making the engine clean and effective.The vehicle maker intends the engine to be the first of a family that will define the company&apos;s diesel strategy for the next 10 years. As part of the vote of confidence in diesel, Mercedes has allocated close to euro3bn over the next three years to develop a series of future diesel engines. The carmaker is not alone. Suppliers such as Bosch and Ricardo are working on designs that aim to eke more out of every millilitre of fuel and slash the emissions of gases such as nitric oxide to keep up with ever more stringent targets.
This month, as we mark the centenary of Ernest Shackleton&apos;s Endurance expedition, Petty Officer Seb Coulthard of the Royal Navy reflects on the marine engineering skills of a hundred years ago.
Competitive gaming, better known as esports, is growing at lightspeed. Teams, players; leagues and game developers are pulling in multiple mrllions in revenue every year. But where&apos;s it going? And who&apos;s getting the biggest piece?
We&apos;ve all heard the hype about automated flying vehicles bringing parcels direct to your door. But when will drone delivery on demand get offthe ground in the UK?
Come the middle of this century, our already teeming planet is going to become even more crowded as nearly two billion more people join the global population. Could open data be the answer to feeding us all?
Just how easy is it to fool a fish?
Clever tech helps you pitch a tent with ease, take better photos, vacuum the house effortlessly and relive your eight-bit youth.
Samsung&apos;s flagship smartphone incorporates a major innovation in chip manufacturing.
Sumer is icumen in&apos;, and as our thoughts turn to travel, we round up some apps to help you enjoy more and stress less.
Over the centuries British engineering has played a crucial role in the development of modern India. In his new book, &apos;The Making of India&apos;, Kartar Lalvani explains why this process is today often misunderstood.
Some new books looking back and forward at space exploration, and an appraisal of how science is treated in the movies.
Al Gross was a radical engineer whose ground-breaking inventions in radio would eventually change the world.
Check out our pick of science and technology mini-stories to bamboozle your brain.
One of the most recognisable symbols of the USA, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial granit sculpture in South Dakota&apos;s Black Hills.
Jack&apos;s home for the weekend, where his parents are finding out what motivates engineers.
Our columnist discovers a bunch of unlikely &apos;ocean cleaners&apos; in Monaco&apos;s Oceonographic Museum, which hosted the annual CleanEquity Monaco conference in March.