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07 Oct 22

Disposable electronic components could be printed on paper

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

A team at the State University of New York has devised a way of minimising e-waste, by developing disposable electronic components that can be printed on a sheet of paper. They designed a paper-based amplifier-type circuit that incorporates resistors, capacitors and a transistor, which would be both easy to carry…

07 Oct 22

Digital Resurrection Brings Star Trek Back to the Future

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The bridge of the original U.S.S. Enterprise could soon be a place you can visit—complete with some of the original cast. Visual effects that include virtual “performances” by deceased actors, or that drastically de-age those still alive, are becoming commonplace. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story famously used such effects…

05 Oct 22

USB-C to become common charging cable in the EU from 2024

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

By the end of 2024, all mobile phones, tablets, cameras and other small or medium-sized electronic devices sold in the EU will need to be equipped with the UBS-C charging port, the bloc has agreed. These rules are expected to be extended to laptops in 2026. The EU said the…

04 Oct 22

How a Dual Curing Adhesive Works

Aerospace & Aeronautical

This sponsored article is brought to you by Master Bond. Master Bond UV22DC80-1 is a nanosilica filled, dual cure epoxy based system. Nanosilica filled epoxy formulations are designed to further improve performance and processing properties. The specific filler will play a crucial role in determining key parameters such as viscosity,…

02 Oct 22

This Idea Wasn’t All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Showerhead Debuts

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

For Evan Schneider, the family dinner table is a good place for invention. “I’m always, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if this or that,’” he says, “and people would humor me.”In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University,…

30 Sep 22

How turning bugs into benefits can help tackle recruitment problems

Engineering & Management

Results of the IET’s most recent annual skills survey, published in December 2021, suggest that almost half (49 per cent) of UK firms are experiencing problems because of the shortage of skilled people in the market. Aside from fighting it out with the competition by offering higher pay, and more…

28 Sep 22

Hydrogen could prove inefficient for heating homes, despite government claims

Geotechnical & Environmental

Hydrogen will not have a major role in the future of heating homes across Britain, according to a peer-reviewed analysis of more than two dozen independent studies, published in the academic journal Joule. The research found that using hydrogen in domestic heating is less economic; less efficient; more resource intensive, and…

26 Sep 22

Tackling the hidden risk from building with wood

Geotechnical & Environmental

The UK saw record temperatures this summer, causing widespread wildfires and droughts. This extreme weather could become a regular seasonal occurrence, affecting us all in years to come. Alongside the looming threat from fire, to make matters worse the fire retardants we use to protect building materials often contain dangerous…

23 Sep 22

NASA’s DART Mission Aims to Save the World

Aerospace & Aeronautical

Armageddon ruined everything. Armageddon—the 1998 movie, not the mythical battlefield—told the story of an asteroid headed straight for Earth, and a bunch of swaggering roughnecks sent in space shuttles to blow it up with a nuclear weapon.“Armageddon is big and noisy and stupid and shameless, and it’s going to be…

23 Sep 22

Climate change puts coastal castles at risk

Geotechnical & Environmental

Conservation charity English Heritage has issued a warning regarding the danger that climate change poses to the survival of several castles on the UK coastline, some of which have stood for hundreds of years. The charity, which manages over 400 historic sites across England, highlighted six castles threatened by coastal…