Engineering and technology news explained for 14 to 18 year olds, with the careers behind each story. New stories every week from space, energy, transport, health and more.
Energy & Environment
Pacific Fusion has completed four successful pulsed power fusion tests at Sandia's Z facility, demonstrating a target design that could unlock a third path to commercial fusion energy.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Skyports Drone Services delivered 65 kg cargo loads to Orsted's Hornsea 2 wind turbines off Yorkshire using heavy-lift drones, cutting logistics costs…
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Automotive & Transport
CMB.TECH's Mineral Europa, a 210,000-tonne bulk carrier with a dual-fuel ammonia engine, has entered commercial service carrying iron ore for Fortescue.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Automotive & TransportInnovation
Parallel Systems has raised $100M to deploy its autonomous electric railcar, a battery-powered freight vehicle that runs on existing tracks without a…
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
ManufacturingBreakthroughs
RMIT University engineers have created the world's first floating titanium metamaterial, a 3D-printed composite 70% stronger than stainless steel that bobs on…
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Automotive & Transport
Here is an engineering puzzle. You are building a four-door electric grand tourer that must be longer than a Porsche Panamera, lower than most saloons and quick enough to justify a six-figure price.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Automotive & Transport
Last month, UK electric vehicle sales figures showed something remarkable. In September 2026, 99,201 pure battery electric vehicles reached British roads, a 36.3 per cent increase compared with the same month the previous year.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Construction & Infrastructure
How engineers hand-painted over 4,000 iron chain links on Clifton Suspension Bridge, protecting Brunel's ironwork for 20 to 25 years and adding…
Careers Civil, Structural
Health
For people with any of the roughly 736,900 cochlear implants registered worldwide by December 2019, all devices currently on the market share one obvious characteristic: the processor is worn on the outside of the head.
Careers Biomedical
Electronics & Communications
There's a saying in physics that at first seems contradictory: the quantum vacuum is not empty. Even when space is freed of all matter and radiation, it still shows activity…
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Electronics & CommunicationsInnovation
The Adidas Trionda match ball packs a 500Hz IMU, UWB positioning, and inductive charging into a 3-gram module that tracks every kick…
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
NASA and General Atomics propose a reactor with two independent loops, one for thrust and one for electrical power, that could cut…
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Automotive & Transport
JLR's first fully electric Range Rover uses an 800-volt battery system with silicon carbide inverters, built on the same Solihull production line…
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Space
A figure that would have seemed fanciful a decade ago is now reality: one rocket booster has gone to the edge of space and returned to Earth thirty-seven times.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
Endurance Energy has generated electricity from a geothermal well drilled 1,500 metres beneath the Pacific Ocean, the first offshore geothermal power system…
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Construction & Infrastructure
Engineers begin placing 15,000 tonnes of Norwegian granite to protect the 150-year-old South Gare breakwater on the River Tees from increasingly severe…
Careers Civil, Structural
Energy & Environment
You wouldn't normally think of coal ash when considering the future of high-technology supply chains since it is grey, powdery, slightly toxic, and is stored in huge impoundments located near power stations all over the United States.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Construction & Infrastructure
Arup leads the engineering team designing the UK's first small modular reactor at Wylfa, where three Rolls-Royce SMRs will generate 1.5 GWe…
Careers Civil, Structural
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
Mazama Energy's superhot rock geothermal wells drill three miles down to tap 400°C heat, with each well generating 15MW of round-the-clock clean…
Careers Electrical, Chemical
ManufacturingInnovation
Engineers have made lignin carbon fibre using paper-making waste and nanotubes, halving petroleum use and cutting production costs by 25 percent.
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Energy & EnvironmentInnovation
UK startup Rivan uses DAC and solar power for synthetic methane production, feeding carbon-neutral gas directly into the grid from its Wiltshire…
Careers Electrical, Chemical
The main branches of engineering: what engineers in each one do, what they earn and how to get in.
Degrees, apprenticeships, T Levels and vocational qualifications: how each route into engineering works and who it suits.
The A levels, IB and Scottish qualifications that lead into engineering, and why each one helps.
Work experience, competitions, clubs, scholarships and applications: how to stand out and pay for your studies.