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Personalised healthcare could transform medicine. By tracking and measuring patients’ conditions, doctors could deliver the precise combination of nutrients and medications they need, stabilising and improving conditions.

A pilot version of the UK’s first cross-industry Standard for net zero carbon aligned buildings was launched on Tuesday 24 September 2024. Leading organisations BBP, BRE, the Carbon Trust, CIBSE, IStructE, LETI, RIBA, RICS, and UKGBC have joined forces to champion this initiative.

True paradigm shifts are few and far between. But the change enabled by the development and widespread deployment of machine learning is one – and now seven pioneers have won the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for their “groundbreaking contributions” to the field.

The commemorative film for Smeaton’s 300^th anniversary – it can be accessed here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhfzCcPuofY&authuser=0

A bespoke training programme on carbon capture and storage technologies was delivered to a delegation of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) by engineering academics  (January 9-10).

Researchers have discovered a way to recycle the tiny particles used to create supraparticle lasers, a technology that precisely controls light at a very small scale.

The breakthrough, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, could help manage these valuable materials in a more sustainable way.

When 58-year-old Will Studholme ended up in accident and emergency at an NHS hospital in Oxford in 2023 with gastrointestinal symptoms, he wasn't expecting a diagnosis of osteoporosis.

The disease, strongly associated with age, causes bones to become weak and fragile, increasing the risk of fracture.

From Supreme Court judgements to Boris Johnson’s claim that he would “lie down in front of those bulldozers”, the debate around Heathrow expansion has raged for almost two decades, ocassionally dropping out of the headlines only to reappear years later. Now, it is firmly back.

Many badly worn highways assets require more urgent attention, warn expert contributors to State of the Nation 2025.

Leading scientists and industry experts have joined forces to develop existing and emerging research to accelerate Scotland’s offshore wind sector.

Construction has started on a Scotland-first facility for developing and manufacturing green energy technologies and the rapid scale-up of the companies developing them, with the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) named as a key delivery partner that will provide onsite support in a dedicated advanced manufacturing workshop to assist prototyping and commercialisation

Experts have created a newly-designed temporary shelter which they hope could help the millions of people displaced by disasters around the world every year.

The team behind the project, which is led by Edinburgh Napier University, have designed a hexagonal structure that aims to improve on the insulated steel box-like home designed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) commonly used for emergency housing at sites such as refugee camps.