Project management is second nature to our anonymous blogger, apart from when it comes to Christmas. The secret engineer wonders why we rarely apply workplace-honed management skills to our daily...
When ESA experts wanted to see what the ion engine designed for the SMART-1 mission to the Moon would finally look like, they turned to a French start-up company: News’UProduction.
The National Physical Laboratory and Surrey University are to collaborate on the delivery of a £10m programme to develop three key areas of technology set to benefit the UK economy.
Rapid cuts in methane emissions from fossil fuel production and use are needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The UK energy sector is likely to be urged to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on supercritical boiler technology in a bid to cut pollution from the nation’s ageing coal-fired power plants.
Reaction Engines has received £60m in government funding to continue the development of its SABRE rocket engine, a technology expected to lead to fully reusable single-stage space launchers.
Bibby Line Accommodation Services Divisionhas won a contract with Chevron Nigeria tocharter the Coastel Bibby Progress. BibbyProgress will be deployed to Nigeria’s WarriDelta to provide floating...
Changing the shape of chemotherapy drug nanoparticles from spherical to rod-shaped has made them up to 10,000 times more effective at targeting and delivering anti-cancer drugs to breast cancer cells.
Wind industry leaders gathered at the recent British Wind Energy Association conference to urge the government to improve access to the National Grid so that £50bn in private investment can be pumped...
BAE Systems and Vectronix are to produce, maintain, and provide logistical support for up to 200 laser target locator modules per month under a five-year contract worth up to $347m.
