Engineering stories whose deep dive explains forces and motion, 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
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…
Electronics & CommunicationsInnovation
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
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
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
Construction & Infrastructure
Engineers begin placing 15,000 tonnes of Norwegian granite to protect the 150-year-old South Gare breakwater on the River Tees from increasingly severe North Sea…
Deep dive: How Rock Armour Protects Coastal Structures
Space
ESA's BepiColombo has shed its transfer module after an eight-year journey, beginning the final approach to enter Mercury orbit in November 2026.
Deep dive: Surviving the Sun's Back Garden
Construction & Infrastructure
Engineers begin an 18-month programme to demolish and rebuild the HS2 Saltley Viaduct in Birmingham, raising it two metres to make way for high-speed…
Deep dive: Building a bridge over live infrastructure
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
The Menai Suspension Bridge anniversary celebrations mark 200 years since Thomas Telford's wrought-iron masterpiece connected Anglesey to mainland Wales.
Deep dive: The Menai Suspension Bridge Anniversary and Structural Principles
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
A lunar excavator built by Interlune and Vermeer processes 100 metric tons of Moon rock per hour, targeting NASA's Moon Base programme by 2028.
Deep dive: Adapting Earthmoving Machinery for One-Sixth Gravity
Construction & Infrastructure
A floating wind turbine is ready for tow to Scotland's Culzean gas platform, where it will supply 20% of the platform's power from renewable…
Deep dive: Keeping a Floating Turbine Upright in the North Sea
Space
China's Long March 10B caught its booster in a net at sea on its maiden flight. We explore the engineering behind this orbital-class recovery…
Deep dive: the physics of the Long March 10B booster recovery
Construction & Infrastructure
How are engineers installing the HS2 M42 twin box structure over a live motorway? Discover the modular construction and A-level physics behind this massive…
Deep dive: inside the HS2 M42 twin box structure