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Germany has unveiled not one but two Hydrogen fuel trains. It is being celebrated as a world-first. The train can traverse 600 miles (1,000km) of railway on a single tank of hydrogen. What is significant about this number is that it matches what diesel trains can do. The new-fangled trains...Read More

In a digital world, higher education becomes a shapeshifter. Even after graduation, continuous and life-long re-skilling and up-skilling is becoming a necessity. The difficulty for universities is to keep up with the demand for new forms of education and training as a result of the internet age. Brick-and-mortar institutions are...Read More

How do you make a nanodevice move? Add some light. No, really. A nanomotor is a molecular or nanoscale device capable of converting energy into movement. The motors are so small they can fit inside human cells. The benefits of engineering these kinds of motors in the future of biomedicine...Read More

Could solar and wind farms create gardens of Eden in the desert? According to a newly published study in the popular journal, Science, bringing rain to the desert with solar arrays and wind turbines is not far-fetched. The study is entitled: ‘Climate model shows large-scale wind and solar farms in...Read More

The convergence of machine learning and engineering is perhaps the most important crossing of paths in modern times. Companies in a plethora of industries are expected to (and already are) opting-in to the AI future. As technology advances, it is up to the prospective engineer to adapt to the innovation...Read More

The advancement of technology has its advantages, especially for rural areas and low-income households around the world. With microsystems and nano-engineering, processes can be made more efficient and the cost of operation reduced. Also, some engineers have turned their skills in this direction, designing complex wearable technologies that are improving,...Read More

SA Power Networks is South Australia’s electricity distributor. And what a dynamic organization it is too. Steve Mackay, the Dean of the Engineering Institute of Technology, and a colleague were shown through the building at 1 Anzac Highway in Adelaide, on the morning of the 28th of August by Barney...Read More

Biomedical engineering is continuing its amalgamation of individual disciplines of engineering, fusing it into one discipline that has the health of humanity as its core focus. A host of startups and companies are developing technologies that will assist the healthcare sector and keep people healthier. United States company, Neocis, is...Read More

As the seasons change and the Northern Hemisphere gets a taste of what the Southern Hemisphere was feeling during winter, commuters on London's Underground could not be more ready for winter than right now. In the month of August, London observed a sweltering heat wave that scorched the region for...Read More

Concrete batteries? It seems that civil engineering and mechanical engineering have met in the middle for a new type of energy storage. A Swiss startup named Energy Vault has showcased an unorthodox experiment — they have stacked concrete blocks via an electric crane, and in doing this, stored energy. The...Read More