A 30ft-long vehicle sporting a Rolls Royce engine normally used in helicopters will attempt to reclaim the motorcycle land speed record for Britain. Engineer and ex-racer Alex Macfadzean, 77, and his team designed the ‘streamliner’ bike which will make its record attempt next year at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia. Behind the wheel will be … Read more
A 30ft-long vehicle sporting a Rolls Royce engine normally used in helicopters will attempt to reclaim the motorcycle land speed record for Britain. Engineer and ex-racer Alex Macfadzean, 77, and his team designed the ‘streamliner’ bike which will make its record attempt next year at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia. Behind the wheel will be … Read more
Teamwork isn’t just a human characteristic: Colonies of army ants will form living ‘scaffolding’ to protect members from falling. The insects are blind and have no designated leader but, according to new research, they’re able to use simple behavioral rules to develop these safety structures without the need for direct communication. Once a scaffold was … Read more
It was the fighter plane that flew in the more famous Spitfire’s shadow during the Second World War, even though it downed more Nazi planes. Armed with cannons and bombs, the Hawker Hurricane was responsible for 55 per cent of the RAF’s air victories over Luftwaffe pilots and around 70 per cent of kills during … Read more
Engineers in the US claim to have created ‘the whitest paint yet’ – which they say will help tackle global warming. The ultra-white coating, developed at Purdue University in Indiana, reflects up to 98.1 per cent of sunlight while sending away infrared heat. Currently, paints on the market designed to reject heat only reflect somewhere between 80 and … Read more
British Gas engineers have shared their fury as hundreds today lost their jobs after refusing to sign up to tougher employment terms under a ‘fire and rehire’ scheme. The energy supplier handed dismissal notices to around 1,000 employees on April 1 following months of controversy over owner Centrica’s plans to up hours and cut higher … Read more
British Gas engineers have shared their fury as hundreds today lost their jobs after refusing to sign up to tougher employment terms under a ‘fire and rehire’ scheme. The energy supplier handed dismissal notices to around 1,000 employees on April 1 following months of controversy over owner Centrica’s plans to up hours and cut higher … Read more
A school of robotic fish that are able to coordinate their movements underwater – just like real fish – have been created by a team of engineers. Harvard University experts created the fish-inspired bots to work without any external control, mimicking the collective behaviours groups of fish demonstrate. Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronised behaviours … Read more
A school of robotic fish that are able to coordinate their movements underwater – just like real fish – have been created by a team of engineers. Harvard University experts created the fish-inspired bots to work without any external control, mimicking the collective behaviours groups of fish demonstrate. Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronised behaviours … Read more
More than 7,000 British Gas engineers will go on strike for five days from January 7 in row over pay and conditions, GMB union says The strike will be followed by further stoppages to be announced later The announcement follows a 9-1 vote in favour of industrial action The union said British Gas has set … Read more