Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
The Lower Thames Crossing tunnel boring machine will be Europe's largest at 16.4m diameter, built by Herrenknecht to dig the UK's longest…
Careers Civil, Structural
Construction & Infrastructure
China's 1GW Hami molten salt solar plant combines PV and concentrated solar to generate electricity eight hours after sunset.
Careers Civil, Structural
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
Max Planck researchers solve the solid state battery dendrite problem, revealing lithium cracks ceramics through pressure, not electron leakage.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
HealthBreakthroughs
Oxford Nanopore wins the 2026 MacRobert Award for its portable DNA sequencing technology used on the ISS and in field disease outbreaks.
Careers Biomedical
Automotive & Transport
JCB's Hydromax streamliner targets the hydrogen speed record at Bonneville with 1,600hp from twin hydrogen engines and driver Andy Green.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
AF Gruppen wins the NOK 5.6bn contract to build the Stad Ship Tunnel, the world's first full-size ship tunnel through Norway's Stad…
Careers Civil, Structural
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
Tohoku University's graphene-COF interlayer keeps a lithium sulfur battery stable for 1,000 cycles at 674 Wh/kg, solving the polysulfide shuttle problem.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Aerospace, Defence & MarineInnovation
JetZero has started assembling its full-scale blended wing body aircraft demonstrator Jet1 in Mojave, promising 50% lower fuel burn for airlines.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Energy & EnvironmentInnovation
Engineers at UT Austin created a water harvesting jacket that produces up to 900ml of drinking water daily from atmospheric moisture using…
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
University of Vienna researchers extended magnon lifetimes by 100x to 18 microseconds, opening a path to magnon quantum computing on a chip.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Space
Getting a signal back to Earth from a small satellite is harder than it sounds. The problem is not power — CubeSats carry solar panels.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Energy & Environment
The first wave of large-scale offshore wind farms is ageing. Turbines installed in the mid-2000s are approaching the end of their 20–25-year design lives, and the UK, which has more…
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Health
Some bacteria navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. They produce chains of iron-rich nanoparticles inside their own cells, using them like a biological compass to orient themselves in low-oxygen environments.
Careers Biomedical
Space
Five states of matter exist. Most people learn about four states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Energy & Environment
Solar panels are, at heart, a compromise. Every photovoltaic cell is tuned to absorb light at a particular range of wavelengths.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
China's Qianfan satellite constellation hit 200 in orbit with costs slashed 96%. Here's the engineering behind the flat-pack satellites and mass launches.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
HKU engineers built a cryogenic neuromorphic chip in silicon carbide that mimics neuron spiking at 10 millikelvin, opening a path to quantum…
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
Engineers have developed force-regulating fuses that prevent building collapse propagation, isolating damage like an electrical fuse before it cascades.
Careers Civil, Structural
Chemicals
Osaka researchers built an artificial photosynthesis solar fuel system that runs without batteries, turning sunlight, water and CO2 into formic acid.
Careers Chemical
Energy & Environment
UK wind turbine rare earth recycling could supply neodymium for one million EVs a year from 2038, a NEPC report finds. Here's…
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
China's Tianwen-2 entered orbit around asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on 7 June 2026, beginning a sample return mission that could confirm the rock is…
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical