25 January 2023
Producing flickerless flames usually requires artificially low pressure or gravity. Researchers have now come up with a method that works in standard conditions and could help make engines more efficient
24 November 2022
Patterns of microscopic discs, rings or letters can be added to microrobots or stretchy electronics with a dissolved sugar mixture
22 July 2020
Analogue computers were abandoned half a century ago. But to push past the limits of modern day devices, it may be time for a blast from the past
28 April 2020
From wearable sensors to solar panels, we are developing new materials from the stuff of peacock feathers and butterfly wings. Physicist Jess Wade shows how.
11 October 2019
A NASA engineer has published plans for an engine that could accelerate a rocket without using propellant. But there are questions over whether it could work
25 September 2019
A childhood spent building rockets helped Sam Rogers become the person who flies in a gas-turbine-powered Jet Suit
1 February 2019
Australia’s national treasure Dr Karl on making “free electricity”, Murphy’s law, engineering in childbirth and other “strange engineering”
18 December 2017
Fifty years after the unveiling of Concorde – the flawed, first supersonic airliner – its successors are coming. Maybe they’ll be the real deal, says Paul Marks
10 November 2017
We thought walking in lock step made bridges sway, like London’s Millennium Bridge when it opened. But it turns out crowd size matters more than rhythm
