HealthBreakthroughs
MIT engineers have developed an ultrasound wearable pacemaker sticker that corrects heart arrhythmias without surgery, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Deep dive: Inside the Ultrasound Wearable Pacemaker
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
Antares Nuclear's Mark-0 microreactor achieved nuclear criticality at Idaho National Laboratory on 4 June 2026, the first advanced reactor to do so under the…
Deep dive: How the Mark-0 Microreactor Nuclear Criticality Was Achieved
Energy & Environment
Rolls-Royce SMR selects Škoda JS and Doosan Enerbility to manufacture reactor pressure vessels for Britain's first small modular reactors at Wylfa, Wales.
Deep dive: What makes a small modular reactor different?
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
Carnegie Mellon engineers used gold metamaterial patterns to boost nanoscale heat transfer fourfold, a Nature-published breakthrough for chip cooling and energy.
Deep dive: The Physics and Fabrication Behind Metamaterial Nanoscale Heat Transfer
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
SpinLaunch's Orbital Accelerator spins satellites to 8,000 kph before release, eliminating 70% of rocket fuel. The company now plans its own broadband constellation using…
Deep dive: The physics of kinetic launch
HealthBreakthroughs
MIT engineers built a carbon nanotube catheter that detects bladder cancer biomarkers 50,000 times better than standard tests and maps tumour location.
Deep dive: The Science Behind Nanotube Catheter Cancer Detection
Aerospace, Defence & MarineInnovation
NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on 5 June 2026, reaching Mach 1.1 over California.
Deep dive: Shaping Shock Waves from the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet
Automotive & TransportInnovation
JCB's Hydromax hydrogen car targets 350 mph at Bonneville with twin 800 hp engines, aiming to nearly double the current hydrogen land speed record…
Deep dive: How do you build a 350 mph hydrogen car?
Automotive & Transport
Tesla's Cybercab achieves 165 Wh/mi, making it the most efficient EV ever certified. The engineering behind the record reveals how mass reduction and aerodynamics…
Deep dive: The physics of EV efficiency
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
Custom AeroTruss platforms allow engineers to repair the 200-year-old Menai Suspension Bridge from below, avoiding lane closures on this vital Wales-Anglesey link.
Deep dive: Maintaining heritage structures under load
Aerospace, Defence & MarineInnovation
GE Aerospace compressed hypersonic ramjet engine design from months to seconds using generative AI, returning hundreds of candidate layouts in a single session.
Deep dive: Dual-Mode Ramjets and the Physics of Hypersonic Combustion
Construction & Infrastructure
The HS2 tallest bridge launch sees the 4,200-tonne Curzon 2 arched truss pushed 93m over live Birmingham rail lines in a precision engineering feat.
Deep dive: Launching a Bridge Over a Live Railway