When two Californian professors thought up the CubeSat at the turn of the third millennium, they had no idea they would set off a revolution in how things are done in space. And all they wanted was to ...

Generative AI services such as ChatGPT are major carbon (CO₂) emitters due to their intensive energy usage, but a study has found that some AI prompts could cause 50 times more emissions than others ...

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Open-source intelligence and interviews tell a story about how oil-giant Chevron, when accused of devastating pollution in the rainforest of Ecuador, managed to make its defence a personal case ...

From December 2024, all new housing in Scotland will be built to the highest energy efficiency standards: a Scottish Passivhaus equivalent. Right now, no one knows exactly what that means.

Here’s a cheerful question: how do you think the world will end? Will underground monsters rise against us? Perhaps a giant asteroid will obliterate our planet? Maybe a nuclear winter will make ...

The IET and E&T have celebrated cutting-edge advances in the fields of engineering and technology at the 2022 Innovation Awards. Let's meet the winners!

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It looked like a meeting of technologies that promised much in principle, but the marriage of high-speed data and mains electricity supply has proved to be a challenge too far for the engineers hoping ...

Mining companies rely on continuous innovation to be able to to deliver the productivity increases that drive economics in this highly cyclical sector. Electrification, automation, digitisation and ...

The extent of AI cheating at universities is significant and increasingly going undetected, a survey by The Guardian has found.

Copper cannot be mined quickly enough to keep up with current policies requiring the transition to electric vehicles, according to a University of Michigan study.