City, University of London: Following the launch of the London Space Innovation Centre (LSIC), City’s Robotics and Machine Intelligence Society (RMIS) will be reaching for the stars, as it prepares to host…
Tamzin Preece: The ‘home gym’ didn’t feature in many UK homes before the pandemic, but it’s now much more commonplace to own various bits of kit for home workouts. Within the first three months of lockdown alone, exercise bike sales rose…
IEEE Spectrum: Five years ago, the remote village of Lingshed in the Ladakh region of the northern Himalayas finally got electricity. A team of IEEE volunteers installed 14 solar-powered microgrids at the monastery and a nearby elementary school. The effort was…
The Engineer: Electric powertrains are rewriting the rulebook when it comes to vehicle design. What may look like a simple question of packaging a new set of running gear into…
Wired: Planck’s constant is one of the fundamental constants that sets up all the “rules” for how things work in our universe. (It’s named after the theoretical physicist Max Planck, who is best known for his work on quantized energy…
