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: Electricity and circuits in the news
Engineering stories whose deep dive explains electricity and circuits, ready to use as a starter, a reading task or a real-world example. Each one links to the GCSE and A level curriculum.
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…
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
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
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
Construction & Infrastructure
Orkney Subsea Cable: £1bn Link Connects Islands to UK Grid
SSEN Transmission's £1bn Orkney subsea cable will connect the archipelago to the GB grid for the first time, unlocking 220MW of renewable energy.
Deep dive: Cabling Through the Pentland Firth
HealthBreakthroughs
Cellulose Hydrogel Wearable Sensors Work at -25°C for a Week
Cellulose hydrogel wearable sensors made from cotton pulp kept detecting motion at -25°C for 168 hours, enabling cold-weather flexible electronics.
Deep dive: The Science Behind Cellulose Hydrogel Wearable Sensors
Electronics & Communications
Atomically Thin Transistor Breakthrough at 0.42nm
An atomically thin transistor breakthrough from NYCU and TSMC uses a 0.42nm interface layer to push chip performance beyond today's silicon limits.
Deep dive: What a Gate Dielectric Actually Does
HealthBreakthroughs
Oxford Nanopore Wins MacRobert Award for DNA Sequencing
Oxford Nanopore wins the 2026 MacRobert Award for its portable DNA sequencing technology used on the ISS and in field disease outbreaks.
Energy & Environment
Perovskite Tandem Solar Module Hits 25.6% Efficiency
Solar panels are, at heart, a compromise. Every photovoltaic cell is tuned to absorb light at a particular range of wavelengths. Photons above that…
Deep dive: How a Perovskite Tandem Solar Module Works
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
Cryogenic Neuromorphic Chip Mimics Brain Cells at Near Zero
HKU engineers built a cryogenic neuromorphic chip in silicon carbide that mimics neuron spiking at 10 millikelvin, opening a path to quantum computing.
Deep dive: How SiC Transistors Mimic Neurons at Millikelvin Temperatures
Chemicals
Artificial Photosynthesis Solar Fuel Without Batteries
Osaka researchers built an artificial photosynthesis solar fuel system that runs without batteries, turning sunlight, water and CO2 into formic acid.
Deep dive: Electrolysers, Impedance, and the Physics of Self-Regulation