Engineering
Hoshyar Nooshin obituary
Other lives: Professor whose research focused on the mathematical basis of spacial structures
Laudan Nooshin
27, Nov, 2024 @4:56 PM
Australian engineers invent anti-fatberg coating to tackle sticky sewer problem
Zinc and polyurethane product could stop dangerous blockages in concrete wastewater pipes – but is a few years off commercial use
Petra Stock
14, Nov, 2024 @4:08 AM
How one engineer beat restrictions on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia
In Lewis Packwood’s book Curious Video Game Machines, Voja Antonić explains how he built a home computer and published instructions for anyone to make their own
Lewis Packwood
24, Oct, 2024 @11:00 AM
‘I make architects’ dreams come true’: Hanif Kara, the magician who makes impossible buildings stay up
He has had a hand in some of the 21st-century’s most daring structures – including Zaha Hadid’s Phaeno science centre. We meet the Uganda-born engineer, who has just won architecture’s prestigious Soane medal
Oliver Wainwright
07, Oct, 2024 @11:01 PM
Royal Academy of Engineering president Jim McDonald: this is how we power a greener future
Far from hanging up his tools, the Scottish engineer is determined to go on promoting the role his profession can play in designing a carbon-free economy
Jack Simpson
24, Sep, 2024 @1:00 PM
Solved: the mystery of how Victorians built Crystal Palace in just 190 days
Rapid assembly of structure for 1851 Great Exhibition in London was possible thanks to nut-and-bolt revolution
Donna Ferguson
16, Sep, 2024 @6:00 AM
Like ‘using Lego blocks’: record-breaking tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany takes shape
Tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe
Miranda Bryant in Rødbyhavn
23, Aug, 2024 @9:55 AM
Power lines’ curves and accidental verse | Brief letters
Letters: Dr William Whewell | John Prescott | International Apostrophe Day | University vice-chancellors | Musk and Trump
14, Aug, 2024 @5:03 PM
How Rolls-Royce’s winning run could go on and on
Return to engines for narrow-body aircraft, and order for small modular reactors, could propel firm forward
Nils Pratley
01, Aug, 2024 @5:00 PM
Ron Ayers obituary
Engineer and aerodynamicist involved in land-speed record-breaking cars and guided missile design
Andrew Nahum
12, Jun, 2024 @4:45 PM
Did you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?
The designs behind practical joke toys
Alex Bellos
10, Jun, 2024 @4:00 PM
Wooden bowling arm that bested Australian cricketer in 1909 rebuilt
Cambridge engineers recreate mathematician John Venn’s machine that can launch balls at 33mph
Emine Sinmaz and PA Media
10, Jun, 2024 @4:00 AM
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