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
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 private orbital rocket launched successfully, making India the third country with a private company capable of reaching orbit.
Deep dive: How the Vikram-1 private orbital rocket reaches orbit
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 road tunnel.
Deep dive: How the Lower Thames Crossing tunnel boring machine works
Construction & Infrastructure
China's 1GW Hami molten salt solar plant combines PV and concentrated solar to generate electricity eight hours after sunset.
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
Max Planck researchers solve the solid state battery dendrite problem, revealing lithium cracks ceramics through pressure, not electron leakage.
HealthBreakthroughs
Oxford Nanopore wins the 2026 MacRobert Award for its portable DNA sequencing technology used on the ISS and in field disease outbreaks.
Automotive & Transport
JCB's Hydromax streamliner targets the hydrogen speed record at Bonneville with 1,600hp from twin hydrogen engines and driver Andy Green.
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 peninsula.
Deep dive: drilling through gneiss at ship-tunnel scale
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.
Deep dive: why blended wing body aircraft burn less fuel
Energy & EnvironmentInnovation
Engineers at UT Austin created a water harvesting jacket that produces up to 900ml of drinking water daily from atmospheric moisture using biomass hydrogel.
Deep dive: the chemistry of atmospheric water harvesting
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
University of Vienna researchers extended magnon lifetimes by 100x to 18 microseconds, opening a path to magnon quantum computing on a chip.
Deep dive: from spin waves to quantum processors
Space
Getting a signal back to Earth from a small satellite is harder than it sounds. The problem is not power — CubeSats carry solar…
Deep dive: How the Origami CubeSat Antenna Steers a Beam Without Moving