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- Autophage rocket engine consumes plastic fuselage for fuel https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/autophage-rocket-engine-consumes-plastic-fuselage-for-fuel 67 comments
- Proxima Fusion looks to take stellarators commercial https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/proxima-fusion-looks-to-take-stellarators-commercial/ 85 comments
- Why large firms fail to live up to the lean dream (2014) https://www.theengineer.co.uk/why-large-firms-fail-to-live-up-to-the-lean-dream/ 3 comments
- Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/june-2015-online/jewel-in-the-crown-rolls-royces-single-crystal-turbine-blade-casting-foundry/ 73 comments
- Boiling point http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/310051/Boiling+point.htm 2 comments
- Using GPU accelerated neural networks for games AI http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/311786/Games+without+frontiers.htm 4 comments
- Hydrogen combustion truck set for German debut https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/hydrogen-combustion-truck-set-for-german-debut/ 5 comments renewableenergy
- Offshore friction stir welding robot passes design milestone https://www.theengineer.co.uk/off-shore-friction-stir-welding-robot-resurgam-forth/ 5 comments futurology
- A simulator that provides greater understanding of Martian aerodynamics could help design rotor blades for next generation Mars helicopters. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/imperial-college-simulator-mars-helicopter-pyfr-tohoku-university/ 14 comments science
- Royal Mint to build plant for turning e-waste to gold https://www.theengineer.co.uk/royal-mint-to-build-plant-for-turning-e-waste-to-gold/ 18 comments technology
- Britain’s Royal Mint to build plant for turning e-waste to gold https://www.theengineer.co.uk/royal-mint-to-build-plant-for-turning-e-waste-to-gold/ 116 comments futurology
- Bioengineers at Imperial College London have developed a smart sensing technology that could help farmers to use fertiliser more effectively and reduce environmental damage. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/ai-soil-sensors-to-help-farmers-curb-fertiliser-use/ 2 comments worldnews
- Efforts to decarbonise long-haul air travel have been boosted by a study of the impact of 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on Airbus A350 commercial jet engines. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/saf-airbus-rolls-royce-a350-falcon-decarbonise-long-haul-air-travel/ 3 comments europe
- The opioid epidemic has become worse during pandemic and has continued to be a major public health crisis in the US. Researchers have now developed a stomach-worn wearable device that can detect and reverse an opioid overdose. It senses when a person stops breathing and moving, and injects naloxone. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/opioid-overdose/ 207 comments science
- Group seeks to utilise floating offshore wind turbines to produce 10GW of energy to power multiple floating installations which will produce green hydrogen for onwards transmission to a net zero hydrogen refinery in Shetland, Ireland https://www.theengineer.co.uk/northern-horizons-plans-clean-energy-exports-for-scotland/ 15 comments futurology
- Rolls-Royce flies engine on 100 per cent Sustainable Aviation Fuel https://www.theengineer.co.uk/rolls-royce-world-energy-boeing-saf-trent-engine/ 26 comments europe
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- US team claims viable path to commercial fusion power https://www.theengineer.co.uk/mit-cfs-commercial-fusion-power/ 42 comments worldnews
- NVIDIA’s acquisition of Arm raises ‘serious competition concerns’, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/cma-arm-nvidia-competition/ 20 comments europe
- When the batteries are too heavy, build the vehicle out of the batteries - new proposed structural-battery material shows impressive strength and energy storage. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/texas-robust-electrodes-lighter-electric-vehicles/ 17 comments science
- London team installs mile-deep dark matter detector https://www.theengineer.co.uk/ucl-dark-matter-detector/ 12 comments technology
- Silicon nanoblades convert waste heat into energy. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/nanoblades-thermoelectric-texas/ 4 comments science
- Compact water harvester sucks H20 from the air. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/water-harvester-low-humidity/ 22 comments science
- Cold plasma technology promises to blow tumours away. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/cold-plasma-technology-tumour/ 6 comments science
- Tokamak Energy hits 15 million degree fusion milestone https://www.theengineer.co.uk/tokamak-energy-15-million-fusion/ 5 comments science
- Tokamak Energy hits 15 million degree fusion milestone https://www.theengineer.co.uk/tokamak-energy-15-million-fusion/ 3 comments science
- Researchers in the US have created a new type of solar glass that changes from clear to tinted as it heats up and produces electricity. A paper in Nature Communications describing the work claims a solar power conversion efficiency of 11.3%. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/solar-glass-tinted-electricity/ 105 comments science
- Research improves on water filtration methods by swapping out carbon-based graphene with a compound called molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Using precisely the same nanopore filtering mechanism, they demonstrated that this is able to filter out 70 percent more pure water from salty water than graphene. http://www.theengineer.co.uk/energy/news/engineers-make-material-gains-to-improve-desalination-process/1021398.article 13 comments science
- Science and climate skeptics should come clean http://www.theengineer.co.uk/1021325.article?mobilesite=disabled 5 comments science
- Robot broccoli harvester could cut cost of eating your greens http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/robot-broccoli-harvester-could-cut-cost-of-eating-your-greens/1020518.article 23 comments technology
- Nissan unveils “world’s first” self-cleaning car http://www.theengineer.co.uk/automotive/news/nissan-unveils-worlds-first-self-cleaning-car/1018464.article 15 comments technology
- Chernobyl's new Safe Confinement Roof nears completion. Big enough once installed to generate its own weather inside, it'll last for 100 years; enough time to complete the decommissioning of the site of the worlds worst nuclear disaster. http://www.theengineer.co.uk/in-depth/the-big-story/building-chernobyls-new-safe-confinement/1015479.article#ixzz2tuttemu0 1544 comments technology
- "[...] the ultralight flying spheroid has been inspired in part by flying insects that collide with objects but continue with their flight." http://www.theengineer.co.uk/video/bio-inspired-robot-takes-knocks-to-help-with-disaster-relief/1017392.article 5 comments robotics
- Q & A with Reaction Engines team on Skylon/SABRE - probably our most viable prospect of a single-stage-to-orbit system http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/aerospace/in-depth/skylon-and-sabre-your-questions-answered/1014164.article 10 comments space
- Thermal-imaging technology could be used to identify drunks before they become a nuisance in public spaces. http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/electronics/news/algorithms-and-facial-thermal-imaging-could-identify-drunks/1013752.article 4 comments technology
- Device promises better way of unblocking arteries http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/medical-and-healthcare/news/device-promises-better-way-of-unblocking-arteries/1012314.article 14 comments science
- Scientists use silver nanowires to make LCD screen electrodes http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/electronics/news/scientists-use-silver-nanowires-to-make-lcd-screen-electrodes/1010961.article 3 comments investing
- not "in the loop" but "on the loop" - as humans start to take a step back in the decision-making processes of robotic weapons systems, is War becoming "too easy"? http://www.theengineer.co.uk/1008888.article 3 comments technology
- Spanish island to be first in world to be powered solely by renewable energy http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/energy-and-environment/news/spanish-island-to-be-powered-solely-by-renewable-energy/1009190.article 20 comments worldnews
- OS kernel of 7.5K lines of C proven to be correct with automated theorem prover http://www.theengineer.co.uk/articles/312631/safer%20software.htm 38 comments programming