Articles about 'Engineering'

By using thorium instead of uranium as fuel, nuclear power could be safer and more sustainable, according to new research.

A group of students on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development has devised a project that will help Mexico’s small producers of tomatoes by improving productivity and reducing wastage.

A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.

What’s the point of a brain? This fundamental question has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain controls and predicts movement. In a recent talk for TED, Wolpert explores the research that resulted in him receiving the Golden Brain Award.

Every year we make 10 times our own bodyweight of steel, aluminium, cement, plastics and paper, for every person alive, using a fifth of all the world’s energy supply to do so. Now researchers are releasing a manifesto to change that and help cut carbon emissions. And they’ve also released an album of songs to go with it.

First it was the Dambusters raid, now Cambridge University’s Dr Hugh Hunt has helped to recreate ‘The Great Escape’ from Germany’s infamous Stalag Luft III.

The Cambridge University Solar Car Team (CUER) has completed 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge.

The best of University of Cambridge engineering has gone on show in the Department of Engineering's annual Carl Zeiss photography and video competition.

The emoticons used on Twitter are a language in themselves and are taking on new and often surprising meanings of their own, according to new research.

A method which more than halves the temperature at which high-quality graphene can be produced has been pioneered by researchers.