For decades, the global oil and gas sector has lagged behind industry peers such as the automotive and aerospace industries in adopting and utilising new technologies. And this is despite the upstream sector operating in some of the most challenging environmen...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 13-04-2018

Too often, we're told that the Internet of Things will revolutionise everything. IoT devices have been widely available for half a decade, yet there has yet to be any sign of IoT-enabled devices breaking through and fulfilling their promise. Sporadic use acros...

By Christian Cawley | 11-04-2018

The revolution in automotive drive transmission and engine technology is undoubtedly the most challenging and far-reaching change in vehicle technology since the development of the automobile. And it is increasingly going to have radical consequences for trans...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 09-04-2018

For thousands of years, animals and plants have been used for clothing, from cotton to wool, to silk from silkworms. In the 20th and 21st centuries, other methods, such as genetic engineering and novel foods, have turned creatures’ bodily processes into factor...

By Rob Coppinger | 05-04-2018

April is Stress Awareness Month and has been ever since 1992 and, no, this is not an April 1st spoof story but a look at a stress-related study using wearable technology. I think most of us are all too well aware of the prolific outpourings of marketing hy...

By Paul Whytock | 28-03-2018

At the end of a gruelling 5,000-metre Olympics race, the athletes push themselves past the finish line, the winners apparently obvious to all. But, moments later an Olympics official examines the athletes’ intelligent sweat patches and alerts his superiors, so...

By Rob Coppinger | 21-03-2018

The global battery industry's reliance on lithium cannot go on unabated. Alternatives must be found or, at the very least, lithium batteries must raise their game environmentally. And the answer may well lie in graphene, the thinnest material known to man....

By Paul Whytock | 19-03-2018

The road to 3nm may well be paved with good, groundbreaking technical intentions but there are some pretty deep financial potholes that need to be negotiated on the way. So when news breaks that the industry’s first 3nm test chip tapeout has been achieved i...

By Paul Whytock | 08-03-2018

Just about every car manufacturer is loudly trumpeting the fact they are going to get heavily into producing electric vehicles (EVs). Not only that, they are making bold commitments on quantity and timing. Volvo for instance is saying it will only make elec...

By Paul Whytock | 01-03-2018

The UK’s broadband service is pathetic and progress to improve it snail-like at best, despite years of government pledges and service provider promises. Lets put it into perspective. I recently took statistics from three different reports and came up with s...

By Paul Whytock | 22-02-2018

The sizeable capital investment involved when it comes to buying top-end oscilloscopes, logic and signal analysers can have even the toughest of bean-counters snapping shut their corporate wallets. But this may no longer be quite the financial threat it ha...

By Paul Whytock | 15-02-2018

Two space travel related stories hit my desktop this week; one that rapidly generated major international headlines and one that slid very quietly onto my email screen. The headline-hitter was the successful launch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket with its payload...

By Paul Whytock | 08-02-2018