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As the global population continues its rapid increase (or spirals out of control, depending on your point of view), pollution and air quality are positioning themselves front and centre when it comes to climate change debates - right up there with single use plastics.

The ExoMars mission will see Rosalind Franklin the rover and its surface platform Kazachok land on the Red Planet in 2021.

Wheelchairs are a wonderful brainchild, though no one is quite sure when it was first invented. The first one on record was made for Phillip II of Spain in towards the end of the 1500s. Since then, incremental developments have been made but the basic design (except for specialised sports wheelchairs) remains the same.

Graphene Flagship partners, Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Pisa and the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), launched a rocket into space from Kiruna, Sweden back in June.The experiment aims to test the possibilities of printing graphene inks in space. Studying the different self-assembly modes of graphene into functional patterns in zero-gravi...

Space is filled with infinite discoveries waiting to be found, but new research from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has found home comforts would be hard to leave behind with more than a third (36%) of children saying they would most like to take their TV to space with them should they ever leave the planet.

A chorus of alarms serenaded the nervous astronauts as theEaglelunar module descended toward the moon’s surface. The tension was palpable, and the shrill ringing only added to their worries. Guest blog written byRanjan Sikand, Wind River Intern.

University Health network (UHN) is Canada's largest research hospital which operates four major hospitals and one teaching institute: Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and The Michener Institute.

At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU PVSEC) in Marseille (France), Imec and EnergyVille, together with PVcase, presented their partnership to develop a commercial software solution that allows to easily design and accurately predict the energy yield of brand new photovoltaic (PV) power plants.

Lanner have helped pave the way in a pioneering three-year research programme designed to tackle escalating Tuberculosis (TB) rates in the Philippines, working in partnership with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The project comes after a study which, in 2016, revealed there are 1 million people in the Philippines with active TB, a figure which is reportedly on the rise.

DSEI 2019’sDefence Engineering Skills Conference (DESC) will take place on Thursday 12th September at ExCel, London. The conference provides a unique opportunity for those interested in engineering education and industry to explore the challenges faced by the defence sector and innovative suggestions for their solutions.