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A first-of-its-kind flexible manufacturing line will focus on increasing local supply chain content
Automotive

Unipart Manufacturing partners in £11m initiative

A Spitfire RW388 on show at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent
Aerospace

Spitfire cockpit flight simulator designed by university students and apprentice technicians

Pagers began exploding in Beirut at around 1530 local time
Defence & security

Supply chain interference suspected as cause of pager detonations

Pyri has been inspired by serotinous pinecones, which release seeds in the presence of fire
Communications

Wildfire early detection device wins UK Dyson Award

Participants wore tracking devices on their heads so movement could be monitored
Civil & structural

UCL ‘art gallery’ experiment aims to inform better design of spaces

Electrodes can be inkjet-printed onto the fabric of garments to provide power to wearable technologies
Electronics

Inkjet-printed micro-supercapacitors offer viable power source to e-textiles

Minimally invasive surgeons at UC San Diego Health evaluating the use of spatial computing apps on Apple Vision Pro in the operating room
Medical & healthcare

Clinical trial tests the use of Apple Vision Pro applications during surgery

Defence & security

Register now for The Engineer's Work In Defence week

The EU Battery Regulation and the US’s Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act (UFLPA) are being phased in to address human rights violations
Batteries

Research identifies human rights abuses in battery supply chain

The smart choker could help people with speech impairments communicate
Artificial Intelligence

AI-powered ‘smart choker’ gives voice to speech impaired

Scientists at Diamond have been carrying out preliminary work with a smaller version of the detector, Jungfrau 1M
Medical & healthcare

Diamond awarded £1.3m to help improve UK bioscience research techniques and equipment

The research team led by Principal Researcher Seungmin Hyun (right) conducting an experiment to evaluate the performance of the seawater-based energy harvester
Energy & environment

Researchers develop seawater-based energy harvester