Energy & Environment
Pacific Fusion Achieves Pulsed Power Fusion Breakthrough at Sandia
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…
Physics in the news
Engineering stories whose deep dive explains physics, ready to use as a starter, a reading task or a real-world example. Each one links to the GCSE and A level curriculum.
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Offshore Wind Cargo Drones Deliver 65 kg Loads to North Sea Turbines
Skyports Drone Services delivered 65 kg cargo loads to Orsted's Hornsea 2 wind turbines off Yorkshire using heavy-lift drones, cutting logistics costs and turbine…
Automotive & TransportInnovation
Parallel Systems Raises $100M for Autonomous Electric Railcar Fleet
Parallel Systems has raised $100M to deploy its autonomous electric railcar, a battery-powered freight vehicle that runs on existing tracks without a locomotive or…
ManufacturingBreakthroughs
Engineers Create World’s First Floating Titanium Metamaterial
RMIT University engineers have created the world's first floating titanium metamaterial, a 3D-printed composite 70% stronger than stainless steel that bobs on water like…
Automotive & Transport
UK Electric Vehicle Sales Smash September Record as Battery Power Hits 28% Market Share
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…
Deep dive: What Makes an 800V EV Architecture Different
Health
Fully Implanted Cochlear Implant: The Invisible Device Restoring Hearing Without External Hardware
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…
Deep dive: From Electricity to Light, the Next Frontier in Cochlear Stimulation
Electronics & Communications
Vacuum Enhanced Superconductivity: How Empty Space Itself Strengthens a Superconductor
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…
Deep dive: Terahertz Cavities and the Art of Shaping Nothing
Electronics & CommunicationsInnovation
FIFA World Cup Ball Sensors: Engineering the Trionda
The Adidas Trionda match ball packs a 500Hz IMU, UWB positioning, and inductive charging into a 3-gram module that tracks every kick at the…
Deep dive: MEMS Sensors and the Physics of Football Flight
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Bimodal Nuclear Spacecraft Could Halve Mars Travel Time
NASA and General Atomics propose a reactor with two independent loops, one for thrust and one for electrical power, that could cut a Mars…
Deep dive: Nuclear Thermal Propulsion and Specific Impulse
Automotive & Transport
Range Rover Electric: 800-Volt Architecture Built in Solihull
JLR's first fully electric Range Rover uses an 800-volt battery system with silicon carbide inverters, built on the same Solihull production line as its…
Deep dive: 800-Volt Architecture and Why Voltage Matters
Space
Reusable Rocket Engineering: How Landing Boosters Transformed the Economics of 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…
Deep dive: Grid Fins, Propellant Slosh, and the Art of Supersonic Retropropulsion
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
Offshore Geothermal Energy: First Seafloor Power System
Endurance Energy has generated electricity from a geothermal well drilled 1,500 metres beneath the Pacific Ocean, the first offshore geothermal power system ever deployed.
Deep dive: The Organic Rankine Cycle and Subsea Power Generation