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October 31, 2019

EV charging technique promises 200 miles in 10 minutes

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A new rapid charging technique for electric vehicles is claimed to deliver 200-300 miles range in just 10 minutes, without damaging the battery. (Credit: Chao-Yang Wang Lab, Penn State) When Li-ion batteries are rapidly charged at ambient temperatures, lithium tends to deposit in spears on the carbon anodes. As well as potentially causing dangerous electrical […]

October 30, 2019

JCB wins Dewar Trophy for its electric digger

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JCB’s zero emissions electric digger has won the 2019 Dewar Trophy, the Royal Automobile Club’s award for outstanding British technical achievement in the automotive industry. The presentation was made at the RAC’s Pall Mall clubhouse, where JCB’s director of advanced engineering Bob Womersley gave a detailed briefing on the digger to assembled media. Known as […]

October 30, 2019

London team installs mile-deep dark matter detector

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Researchers from UCL are involved in LUX-ZEPLIN project to find dark matter particles known as WIMPs About a quarter of the universe is made from a substance humans have never managed to detect. We only know about dark matter, which accounts for the 27 per cent of the universe not made of protons, neutrons and […]

October 30, 2019

Charlotte makes breakthrough for London’s super sewer

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Engineers building a 25km super sewer in London have reached a significant milestone after one of the project’s giant tunnelling machines broke through the ground to complete a section of tunnel. Named after suffragist Charlotte Despard, the tunnel boring machine (TBM) is excavating the Frogmore Connection Tunnel from Wandsworth to Fulham as part of the […]

October 30, 2019

Chameleon’s elastic tongue inspires fast-acting robots

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Engineers from Purdue University in the US have taken inspiration from the incredible fly-catching ability of chameleons and salamanders to develop a new class of high-speed soft robots and actuators. Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to launch their sticky tongues at unsuspecting insects located up to one-and-a-half body lengths away, catching […]

October 29, 2019

RCA students show off rural mobility concepts at the RAC

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Students from London’s Royal College of Art have been showing off their concepts to improve rural mobility at the Royal Automobile Club. Project Carnier Kicking off London Motor Week, the event saw 35 RCA post-graduate students tasked with designing methods of transportation for the year 2030 and beyond for commuters living in rural areas. The […]

October 29, 2019

Inclusive development will help AI transform our healthcare

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Artificial intelligence will be a key technology in ensuring that the new pharmaceuticals of the future will be effective for as many people as possible, explains Professor Jackie Hunter In the last decade alone, over a trillion US dollars were spent around the world researching and developing medicines. Yet the top 10 selling drugs on […]

October 29, 2019

Last week’s poll: UK grid-scale storage

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On the back of the announcement of a new 50 MW/250 MWh cryogenic energy storage plant for northern England, we asked readers of The Engineer which type of grid-scale storage they favoured for the UK. There are several possible technologies available or in development: Conventional batteries (by which we mean large-capacity lithium-ion systems used at […]

October 29, 2019

Bloodhound LSR achieves fastest speed to date

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The UK’s Bloodhound land speed record car has hit its highest speed to date – 334mph (537km/h) – during testing at Hakskeenpan in South Africa Bloodhound LSR in action at Hakskeenpan, South Africa According to a statement from the team, the third run – during which the car’s EJ200 jet engine ran with full reheat […]

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