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NVIDIA expands AI tools to help engineers design and manufacture chips
Before a computer chip reaches a phone, car or factory machine, engineers must work out how to make it reliably. NVIDIA has announced new software tools that use artificial intelligence and faster computer simulations to help with that process. Companies including Siemens, Synopsys, Cadence and Applied Materials are using NVIDIA’s technology to investigate materials, test…
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TECHNOLOGY
3D-printed materials reveal damage before they fail
A crack can begin deep inside a component, out of sight long before the damage becomes obvious. Now, engineers at the universities of Glasgow and Sydney have borrowed…
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Could the soil beneath our feet behave like a computer?
Soil might look fairly inert, but beneath the surface it is constantly responding to water, temperature, nutrients and biological activity. Now Cambridge researchers are exploring a more unusual…
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Solar desalination system turns seawater into fresh water without brine waste
Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a solar-powered desalination system that produces fresh water while recovering almost all of the dissolved salts as solids rather than…
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
NVIDIA expands AI tools to help engineers design and manufacture chips
Before a computer chip reaches a phone, car or factory machine, engineers must work out how to make it reliably. NVIDIA has announced new software tools that use…
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From food to fuel, AI helps pinpoint how to grow ‘microalgae’ at scale
Microalgae (microscopic organisms that use light and carbon dioxide to grow) can be used to make ingredients and food for animals, pigments and potentially renewable fuels. But growing…
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£40m robotics hub network to help UK businesses adopt automation
There is a considerable distance between watching a robot perform an impressive demonstration and deciding to install one on your own production line. Will it fit the available…
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SUSTAINABILITY
Solar desalination system turns seawater into fresh water without brine waste
Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a solar-powered desalination system that produces fresh water while recovering almost all of the dissolved salts as solids rather than…
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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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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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EDUCATION
Imperial develops 4D soldering masterclass for engineering students
Learning to solder means watching closely: where the iron touches, how the solder flows and when to move your hands. But in a crowded teaching laboratory, that view…
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King’s launches ‘self-driving’ laboratory initiative
Laboratories capable of running experiments, analysing the results and deciding what to test next are the focus of a new £150,000 initiative at King’s College London. King’s Autonomous…
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UEL students take top prize in structural design competition
Four University of East London engineering students have taken joint first place in a national competition that challenges students to solve the sort of structural problems they will…
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MATERIALS
Nanoparticle ‘skin’ could improve protection for wind-turbine blades
Giving a plastic useful new properties does not necessarily mean changing the whole material. Researchers at the University of Leicester have developed a technique that anchors nanoparticles in…
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Imperial technique reveals hidden losses in solar water splitting
Measuring electrical current can tell researchers how a solar water-splitting material is performing, but it may not tell the whole story. A team at Imperial College London has…
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3D-printed materials reveal damage before they fail
A crack can begin deep inside a component, out of sight long before the damage becomes obvious. Now, engineers at the universities of Glasgow and Sydney have borrowed…
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MEDICAL
Imperial students reach global IoT final with heart-health wearable
Five Imperial College London students have reached the global top ten of the Silicon Labs IoT Challenge 2026 with an ear-worn prototype designed to investigate earlier detection of…
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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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BIOTECHNOLOGY
From food to fuel, AI helps pinpoint how to grow ‘microalgae’ at scale
Microalgae (microscopic organisms that use light and carbon dioxide to grow) can be used to make ingredients and food for animals, pigments and potentially renewable fuels. But growing…
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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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