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A free template to help households across Scotland build their own personalised flood plan is now available − co-created with Scottish communities using behavioural science, as flood risks across the country continue to grow.

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen have helped uncover how offshore wind farms affect ocean mixing and temperature, with new findings showing that impacts depend strongly on local environmental conditions.

Animated ‘virtual agents’ could help keep the roads of the future safer by alerting people behind the wheel of semi-autonomous cars to oncoming hazards, new research suggests.

Researchers found critical control systems for wind and solar farms in 35 European countries reachable through the internet, prompting calls for operators to review remote access and improve monitoring of their systems. Also, first employment figures for the solar-plus-battery sector are published.

Britain’s infrastructure is built for yesterday’s weather, leaving essential services exposed to cascading failures

Guests at the James Watt Dinner were delighted with the choice of inductees and were thrilled to hear from two of the inductees on the night!

You can find out lots more about each of them soon by visiting the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.

https://www.engineeringhalloffame.org

2026 inductees

James Howden

Elizabeth Killick

Ollie Folayan

Dougal Drysdale

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering staff and students at Heriot-Watt University are set to benefit from a newly installed wind tunnel that will support advanced teaching, research and aerodynamic testing.

As plug-in solar PV units become available to UK households on 27 August, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is urging consumers to check whether their home's electrical installation is suitable before buying or connecting one.

The amount of concrete poured into a pile wall as part of the vast Transpennine Route Upgrade was not particularly impressive. Over 12 weeks, about 150 cubic metres was due to be poured – a tiny fraction of the 22 million cubic metres used across the UK every year, according to trade body the Mineral Products Association.

A new AI model can monitor satellites and spot anomalies in their behaviour, reducing the risk of in-orbit collisions, according to new research published in the journal Expert Systems.

The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) will play a key role in new studies to assess whether vaccines already or previously licensed against Zaire ebolavirus—including Ervebo—could offer protection against Bundibugyo ebolavirus, the virus behind the rapidly escalating outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) in May 2026.

Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) is set to produce 100t of technical grade lithium carbonate onshore in the UK.