12 Sept 2018
By 2050, the world will have an additional 2.5 billion mouths to feed. Vertical farms could help to sustain this growing population.
07 Sept 2018
Global food and water security is a key priority; our ability to deliver it is not only uncertain, but an increasingly complex problem.
31 Aug 2018
Wearables provide myriad new ways to monitor patient health and wellbeing, but greatly increase the risk of our private data being lost, stolen, or manipulated.
30 Aug 2018
Hitachi's proton-based particle beam therapy allows clinicians to use a concentrated beam that matches the shape of the treatment site.
28 Aug 2018
A pilot study at Stanford University has recently shown that their 'Superpower Glass' could help to develop social skills in children with autism.
24 Aug 2018
ngineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that allow a caregiver to stretch a bandage until it matches the color for a desired pressure.
27 Dec 2024
What happens when a bridge collapses? Or a space mission ends in tragedy? You call in forensic engineers to investigate. Host Dr Anna Ploszajski contemplates…
13 Dec 2024
Over decades of space exploration, thousands of rockets have launched, resulting in a sea of debris circling the Earth. It's estimated that there are 30,000…
29 Nov 2024
When you have your morning shot of caffeine, do you stop to savour the engineering involved? Chemistry and mechanics are vital to the growing, roasting,…
