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Skills & careers

EngUK report highlights growth in green skills demand

Traditional methods of estimating glacier discharge involve water depth measurements, a physically demanding task that requires wading into the fast flowing, freezing cold water
Energy & environment

Acoustic signals provide alternative method of monitoring glacial runoff

A wearable ultrasonic-system-on-patch for deep tissue monitoring
Sensors

Wearable ultrasonic sensor monitors people on the move

Swift can be incorporated into the design of a new crew transfer vessel or retrofitted into existing vessels
Rail & marine

Swift system pulls people to safety in under a minute

Pembroke CCGT Power Station
Energy & environment

RWE to develop UK carbon capture projects

(left to right): NUS CA2DM researchers Dr Govindan Kutty Rajendran Nair, Dr Sergio G. Echeverrigaray, and Dr Yang Jie working in the dry room of the CBMM-CA2DM Advanced Battery Laboratory
Materials

Niobium-graphene batteries offer challenge to lithium-ion

Defence & security

UK and Norway to collaborate on subsea threats

University of Houston researcher holding a newly developed piezoelectric sensor that has been proven to work at extremely high temperatures
Sensors

New sensor works at high temperatures in extreme environments

Energy & environment

Suppliers need to get fusion ready to reap significant rewards

Manufacturing

Maintenance landscape mapped in new report from RS and IMechE

Larger turbines mean longer blades, taller towers, and greater forces acting on every component
Robotics & UAVs

DARE centre opens to accelerate robotics for offshore renewables

Energy & environment

Cambridge team’s artificial leaf creates fuels direct from Sun