Capital engineers

Boris Johnson

The Mayor of London on the role engineers and engineering have in improving London’s infrastructure.

A cool biorepository

Justin Owen

How engineering behind the 2008 MacRobert Award finalist helped create a reliable storage facility at - 80°C for millions of biological samples.

Force protection

Major Sean Matten

Creating protective barriers for allied forces in Afghanistan and Iraq

Bio-inspired technologies

Professor Christofer Toumazou FREng FRS

Advances in the use of silicon semiconductor technology to replace and monitor biological functions and other research being conducted by the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

Forensics of knife crime

Dr Sarah Hainsworth

Can forensic engineering help produce data that will change the way we think about knives as weapons?

The demand for HD TV

Dr David Harrison

How the increasing demand for high-definition television is being compressed to fit onto existing broadcasting networks

A conversation with Dr Mo Ibrahim

The Sudanese-born British entrepreneur talks to Sir Alan Rudge FREng on founding the world’s largest annual prize and bringing mobile telecommunications to Africa.

Innovation Watch

The smallest television screen in the world
Engineers have developed a fully functional miniature screen that measures the size of a thumbnail.