Opinion

Next-generation nuclear technology including high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR) and micro-modular reactors (MMR) have received government backing.

The UK government must capture the opportunities presented by low-carbon hydrogen and scale up its production, according to a new report published today by the National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC), a partnership of 42 professional engineering organisations which the IET is part of.

As a shipbuilder and designer with more than a century of history, Ulstein has a proven resilience when it comes to adapting to maritime’s ever-changing political and economic landscape.

A 500-year-old tower house which was the seat of the Balfours of Burleigh for more than 250 years has reopened to the public

Every Forward Thinker needs a place to develop a sense of scientific exploration and investigation. For the young James Alfred Ewing, that place was the family attic in Dundee.

An extreme performance new electric vehicle (EV) platform from Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) could cut development timescales for high-end cars by an entire year.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), along with other leading organisations in the manufacturing, tech and built environment sectors, have published a paper calling for a common language across digital twins – which currently doesn’t exist and means sectors are working in silos.

Decarbonising the global energy system by around 2050 could save the world at least $12 trillion, according to a new study.

The ICE has published a second version of its Anti-Racism Toolkit demonstrating its ongoing commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).

Early data from a new space telescope has enabled Edinburgh astronomers to locate the most distant galaxy ever found.

Soaring energy costs are threatening industrial ‘net zero’ efforts, a new survey has found, risking a slowdown in the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy.

Scottish health researchers are at the forefront of a new £6m project to make Artificial Intelligence-assisted capsule endoscopy a part of future bowel cancer diagnostics.