While a range of technologies are being pursued such as electric- or hydrogen-powered aircraft in an attempt to cut emissions, they are all at an early stage of development. Other proposals in the ...

Tanya Weaver looks back at the fiery end of the airship era, the longest bridge in the world, and performances plagued by ...

The reductions achieved in 2024 were driven by the electricity supply and industry sectors, with the UK’s last coal-fired electricity power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, closing in October 2024.

Electricity in the UK is more expensive than in many of its European counterparts, and while the market has seen some recent price drops, it’s still more costly than it was before the 2022 price ...

This month, the Evil Engineer advises a business founder with a soft spot for the serpentine. Your support ensures a bright ...

A new era of material discovery Taking materials from lab to fab involves three key steps – discovery, analysis and deployment. The discovery step is well covered: AI models predict which materials ...

There are currently no smartphones solely produced in the US, although one device – Purism’s Liberty Phone – is probably the closest such thing. The electronics in the $1999 (£1455) phone are made at ...

As the Resilience lunar lander began its descent on 5 June, mission control suddenly lost all contact with the craft two minutes before it was scheduled for a soft touchdown. The proposed landing site ...

It’s estimated that almost a third of the food produced for human consumption is ultimately lost as waste – much of it goes to landfill, which results in harmful methane emissions and the loss of ...

Subject matter also resulted in significantly different levels of CO2 emissions. Questions that required lengthy reasoning processes – for example, abstract algebra or philosophy – led to up to six ...

The extent of AI cheating at universities is significant and increasingly going undetected, a survey by The Guardian has found. Academic misconduct among university students is nothing new. But with ...

HS2 has been beset by a string of failures and budget overruns over the last decade, including the cancellation of routes ending in Leeds and Manchester by the previous Conservative government. An HS2 ...