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AI Can Now React to Fusion Plasma Faster Than Humans Can
Keeping a fusion plasma under control requires decisions to be made extraordinarily quickly. Inside a tokamak, disturbances can develop within milliseconds, giving human operators little chance to react before an instability begins affecting the experiment. Researchers at Princeton University and the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have now tested an artificial…
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TECHNOLOGY
MIT Rethinks the Qubit to Make Quantum Computers Faster and More Reliable
Quantum computers have an unusual problem: the more useful their qubits need to become, the easier it can be to disturb them. Qubits must hold quantum information for…
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Reimagining the Battery: When the Structure Becomes the Energy Store
What if an electric bicycle’s frame was also its battery? Or an aircraft wing could store some of the electricity needed to power the aircraft? A new UK…
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UK airspace trial to test whether changing flight paths can reduce contrails
Most attempts to reduce aviation’s climate impact focus on what powers an aircraft. A new UK-led trial is looking instead at where an aircraft flies, testing whether relatively…
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Robot trialled for cardiovascular health checks in Scottish GP surgery
A wheeled robot that can guide patients through routine cardiovascular health checks has been trialled at an NHS GP surgery in Dundee, offering a glimpse of how robotics…
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Light-powered nanorobots can collect and move bacteria
Working with individual bacteria presents an obvious engineering problem: the tools used to manipulate them need to operate on roughly the same scale. Researchers at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU)…
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New catalyst could make fuel cells more practical for data centres
Data centres have an appetite for electricity. Servers need power around the clock, cooling systems need still more, and as artificial intelligence drives demand for computing upwards, finding…
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SUSTAINABILITY
UK airspace trial to test whether changing flight paths can reduce contrails
Most attempts to reduce aviation’s climate impact focus on what powers an aircraft. A new UK-led trial is looking instead at where an aircraft flies, testing whether relatively…
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Where renewables are built could determine the resilience of future power grids
As electricity systems become more dependent on wind and solar power, engineers face a problem that cannot be solved simply by adding more generating capacity. Renewable output varies…
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Imperial design engineering alumni launch sustainable clothing collaboration
Imperial College London has teamed up with graduate-founded biomaterials company Ponda to launch a range of sustainable university-branded clothing, demonstrating how ideas developed through engineering education can become…
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EDUCATION
Oxford, UCL and Imperial Join Forces to Rethink How AI Research Is Done
Some of the biggest advances in artificial intelligence have emerged from industrial research labs with enormous computing resources, large multidisciplinary teams and the freedom to pursue ambitious ideas…
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UCL workshop puts school students in the engineering driving seat
For anyone considering a career in engineering, seeing how a design progresses from a computer screen to something that can actually be built and tested can make the…
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Robot trialled for cardiovascular health checks in Scottish GP surgery
A wheeled robot that can guide patients through routine cardiovascular health checks has been trialled at an NHS GP surgery in Dundee, offering a glimpse of how robotics…
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MATERIALS
Reimagining the Battery: When the Structure Becomes the Energy Store
What if an electric bicycle’s frame was also its battery? Or an aircraft wing could store some of the electricity needed to power the aircraft? A new UK…
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Scientists discover diamonds can generate electricity
For more than a century, diamond has been regarded as non-piezoelectric, meaning it should not generate an electrical voltage when mechanically deformed. Researchers at the University of Hong…
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Nanoscale coating boosts condensation heat transfer by up to 5.5 times
Getting water to condense isn’t particularly difficult. Getting it to condense efficiently, and then move out of the way quickly enough for the process to start again, is…
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MEDICAL
Engineering bacteria to fight cancer
Modern cancer treatments have become remarkably effective, but they all face the same problem. However precisely a tumour is identified, destroying it without damaging healthy tissue remains difficult.…
Cambridge engineering alumnus co-founds AI imaging start-up
A University of Cambridge engineering graduate has co-founded a deep-tech start-up using artificial intelligence to improve image reconstruction across medicine, science and industry. Andrew Wang, who studied Information…
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New Designer of the Year 2026 project targets post-immersion hypothermia
Bournemouth University product design student Rupert Murphy has been named New Designer of the Year 2026 for developing a portable rescue device that could improve the treatment of…
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BIOTECHNOLOGY
Light-powered nanorobots can collect and move bacteria
Working with individual bacteria presents an obvious engineering problem: the tools used to manipulate them need to operate on roughly the same scale. Researchers at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU)…
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New catalyst could make fuel cells more practical for data centres
Data centres have an appetite for electricity. Servers need power around the clock, cooling systems need still more, and as artificial intelligence drives demand for computing upwards, finding…
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AI-driven analysis reveals new proteins from the deep ocean
A study published in Nature has mapped millions of genes from deep-sea microorganisms collected at hydrothermal vents, methane seeps and deep-ocean trenches. The work revealed an unexpected level…
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