British Engineering legend Sir Clive Sinclair died today aged 81. Whilst Sinclair is best known for the invention of the ill-fated C5 pedal-electric car (below) he is also the mind behind the world’s first pocket calculator which brought about a revolution in cheaper personal computers across the UK....
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3D-printed rocket engines: the technology driving the private sector space race The volatile nature of space rocket engines means that many early prototypes end up embedded in dirt banks...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that the James Webb telescope - successor to Hubble telescope - will blast from the ESA spaceport in French Guiana on...
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In the middle of this summer’s shocking fires and floods came the grimmest climate science report yet from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warning of a...
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It’s a question that has puzzled observers for centuries: do the fantastic green and crimson light displays of the aurora borealis produce any discernible sound? Conjured by the...
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This week a £1m scheme to save the 1876 River Tyne swing bridge ended in failure. The machine room, showing one of Armstrong's original three-cylinder oscillating hydraulic motors...
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The modern-era Olympics are among the largest sporting events in the world – but relatively few people actually get to watch the action live and in person. So...
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