Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
Northwestern University engineers have created printed artificial neurons that generate realistic electrical signals capable of activating living brain cells.
Deep dive: How Printed Artificial Neurons Work
Aerospace, Defence & MarineBreakthroughs
SpaceX's Starship V3 test flight launched from Starbase Texas, standing 124m tall with 33 Raptor 3 engines and carrying 20 mock Starlink satellites.
Deep dive: How 33 Engines Talk to One Computer
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
RWE is building the UK's largest Pembroke battery storage facility in Wales, a 350MW lithium-ion system that could power the grid for two continuous…
Deep dive: Grid-Scale Lithium-Ion Pembroke Battery Storage
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
A £19M Olympic Park footbridge has opened at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, a 44-metre single-span steel structure floated into position by pontoon.
Deep dive: Single-Span Steel Bridge Design
Energy & EnvironmentInnovation
A Rolls-Royce small modular reactor contract has been signed for three 470MW units at Wylfa, Anglesey, creating 8,000 jobs and powering 3 million homes.
Deep dive: Inside the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor
Construction & Infrastructure
The East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm has installed its first turbine featuring 115-metre blades, the longest ever manufactured in the UK.
Deep dive: How East Anglia THREE offshore wind turbines generate power
Aerospace, Defence & MarineBreakthroughs
The Artemis II moon mission tested heat shields, life support, and spacecraft systems on humanity's first crewed lunar flight since 1972.
Deep dive: How the Artemis II moon mission spacecraft works
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
Early construction works have begun on the Lower Thames Crossing tunnel, a £10.2bn project featuring Europe's largest tunnel boring machine.
Deep dive: How the Lower Thames Crossing tunnel will be built
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
KIT engineers built a compressorless hydrogen gas turbine that ran for 303 seconds, beating NASA's record and generating electricity without mechanical compression.
Deep dive: Gas Turbines
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
A new thin-film coating lets solar panels generate electricity from raindrops and sunlight simultaneously, producing over 100 volts per droplet impact.
Deep dive: Triboelectric Nanogenerators and Perovskite Solar Cells
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
A robotic underwater diving exoskeleton from Shenzhen reduces diver oxygen consumption by 40%. Here's the engineering behind real-time adaptive assistance.
Deep dive: Adapting to a Moving Target in a Viscous Medium
Energy & EnvironmentInnovation
Rivian and Redwood Materials deployed 10 MWh of second-life EV battery storage at an Illinois factory. Here's the engineering behind repurposed battery packs.
Deep dive: Making Old Batteries Work Together