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Dubai police issued Star Wars-style hover bikes
This year Dubai's Gitex tech conference revealed the gulf-state will be outfitting its police with Star Wars-style hoverbikes
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World’s first floating wind farm goes online
The first floating wind farm in the world - Hywind Scotland - has started to deliver electricity to the Scottish grid today The 30MW wind farm is operated by Statoil and located 25kms offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The farm...
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Meet the 1,300km-long underground science experiment to study the world’s most elusive particles
In an abandoned gold mine close to Deadwood, South Dakota, construction has started on what is arguably the world’s largest science experiment. I’m part of an international team of around 1,000 scientists assembled to design and run this project –...
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British LED firm is leading light at Engineering Excellence Awards
Plessey Semiconductors have grabbed the Grand Prix prize at the 2017 British Engineering Excellence Awards in London. Plessey develops high power ‘GaN-on-Si’ LEDs. By using gallium nitride with silicon instead of sapphire the company claims their lights can provide 30%...
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Tesla Powerpacks shipped to Puerto Rico
Elon Musk has made good on his word to help bring power back to Puerto Rico - sending hundreds of Powerwall battery packs to the island. After Puerto Rico's electric grid was destroyed by hurricanes last month Musk promised to...
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Infographic — What does a structural engineer do?
Think of a structure as the human body: each body part should be healthy for it to be able to function as a whole. A structural engineer focuses on the strength of the materials used, stability, and whether the skeleton...
