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NASA chooses launch partner for innovative solar sail system
NASA has selected California-based space-systems company Rocket Lab to launch its Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, into orbit. The launch, which will take place aboard a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle, is scheduled to take place towards the middle of 2022. The ACS3 technology demonstration is an innovative satellite designed to test new deployable…
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TECHNOLOGY
UAE Space Agency announces plans for new mission
The United Arab Emirates Space Agency has announced plans for a new interplanetary mission to explore the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the source of most meteorites…
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Living the DREAM: engineering firm to update kids’ wheelchair design
Oxfordshire-based technology and engineering company Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has been retained by child-mobility charity Whizz-Kidz to refine the DREAM wheelchair concept. Designed by children, the DREAM chair…
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Amazon and MIT launch AI and robotics research hub
Online shopping behemoth Amazon has partnered with MIT to launch a new research hub aimed at expanding participation in AI, robotics and related fields, while working to ensure…
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SUSTAINABILITY
The future of farming is vertical
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University are designing a next-generation vertical-farming system that uses state-of-the-art hi-tech growing methods to produce bumper crops year-round in the hope of tackling future…
A new way to remove lead from drinking water
A team of MIT engineers has designed a new low-cost, energy-efficient way to treat water contaminated with heavy metals. They suggest that the technique could ultimately be used…
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Turning marine infrastructure into habitats for sea life
A team of scientists is designing special panels that can be attached to marine infrastructure to make it more attractive for colonisation by sea life. The Living Seawalls…
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EDUCATION
Skills shortages a growing problem say UK engineering design firms
A new survey of mostly UK-based engineering design firms, carried out by the Engineering Design Show in August, has revealed that more half of respondents are experiencing skills…
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Engineers Without Borders launches student challenge
Engineers Without Borders has launched the 11th instalment of its annual Engineering for People Design Challenge. A collaboration between Engineers Without Borders UK and its partners in South…
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Wales gets new engineering degree apprenticeship programme
Gower College Swansea and Cardiff University have a formed a partnership that will enable businesses and professionals to benefit from the first Integrated Engineering Degree Apprenticeship programme to…
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MATERIALS
NASA chooses launch partner for innovative solar sail system
NASA has selected California-based space-systems company Rocket Lab to launch its Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, into orbit. The launch, which will take place aboard a…
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Manchester team to design graphene-enhanced space habitats
Researchers at the University of Manchester have teamed up with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the architecture firm behind the world’s tallest building – Burj Khalifa in Dubai…
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New 3D-printed objects can sense how a user is interacting with them
A team of researchers at MIT has developed a new way of 3D printing mechanisms that can detect how force is being applied to an object. The new…
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MEDICAL
Living the DREAM: engineering firm to update kids’ wheelchair design
Oxfordshire-based technology and engineering company Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has been retained by child-mobility charity Whizz-Kidz to refine the DREAM wheelchair concept. Designed by children, the DREAM chair…
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UK to get new nanotechnology testing facility
The University of Strathclyde has been awarded £853,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to establish a bespoke facility for testing innovative nanotechnologies for healthcare…
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Inflatable robotic hand offers real-time tactile control to amputees
Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand that offers real-time tactile control to amputees. Neuroprosthetics – highly…
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