Space
In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams’s seminal 1978 BBC broadcast (then book, feature film and now cultural icon), one of the many technology predictions was the Babel Fish.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Automotive & Transport
South Korea's International Business District (IBD) in Songdo will have everything you would expect from a modern city, without the traffic.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Electronics & Communications
Non-profit organisation Netsafe has launched Re:scam - an email bot designed to combat scammers by wasting their time
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Energy & Environment
The first floating wind farm in the world - Hywind Scotland - has started to deliver electricity to the Scottish grid today
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Health
Neuropsychologists of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have just published a new study that shows video games are better for your brain than their reputation.
Careers Biomedical
Electronics & Communications
Australian quantum-computing-engineers have designed a new type of qubit. Qubits are the building block of quantum computers and the new development should finally make it possible to manufacture a true, large-scale quantum computer.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Electronics & Communications
UK start-up Vertigo has combined some mind-bending maths with ARM’s mBed microprocessor to create a device that is capable of combining an accelerometer, gyroscope and GPS to tell you exactly where you have gone and how fast you were going
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Health
Meet LightStrike - the robot making hospitals safer by zapping germs with UV rays.
Careers Biomedical
Energy & Environment
You might remember Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh from the wave machine created from old bike parts - now he has teamed up with 22-year-old undergraduate Dylan Knight to make a splash in the world of washing machines
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
The United States Navy has put its brand new high-tech railgun through its paces with a series of multi-shot salvos.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Manufacturing
Researchers have designed a super stretchy, strong and sustainable material that mimics the qualities of spider silk, and is ‘spun’ from a material that is 98% water.
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Space
Today Japan revealed its ambitious plan to put an astronaut on the Moon by 2030. A new proposal from the country's space agency would see astronaut venturing beyond the International Space Station by the end of the next decade.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Space
Thanks to astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chadwick Trujillo, Earth giant neighbour has added two new moons to its existing roster - bringing the total moon count to 69.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Engineering professor Kamesh Namuduri has successfully tested his mobile cellular service with a drone team in Waxahachie.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Electronics & Communications
Engineers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a holographic imaging process that depicts the radiation of a Wi-Fi transmitter to generate three-dimensional images of the surrounding environment…
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Manufacturing
After a year of research and 20 attempts to get the material right, an Air Force Academy cadet has developed goo which can enhance existing types of body armour.
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Manufacturing
Does a future where every home has a device which could pull all the water you need out of the air (even in dry or desert climates) using the sun sound good?
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Electronics & Communications
Engineers from North Carolina State University have made a fundamental advance in controlling "soft robots" by using magnetic fields to remotely manipulate chains embedded placed within them.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Electronics & Communications
German robotics company Festo has revealed the "OctopusGripper" - a robotic octopus tentacle inspired by its eight-legged flesh-and-blood ocean counterparts soft muscle.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Energy & Environment
The key to constructing everything from long distance electric cars to increasing hydrogen production from water electrolysis is developing efficient high capacity energy storage systems.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Electronics & Communications
A new startup company, Agility Robotics, has spun off from Oregon State University and successfully introduced Cassie.
Careers Electronic, Electrical