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The Tall Ship Glenlee’s much-loved figurehead has been craned back into position following conservation work, marking another milestone in the historic Clyde-built ship’s £1.8 million restoration project

Three Edinburgh-led projects have received funding from an initiative to help Scotland achieve its ambitious climate targets.

Giving robot companions animal-like or anime-style faces and voices could maximise their emotional appeal to users, according to new research which could help guide the growing field of social robotics.

Technologies that help people navigate, communicate and measure time with extraordinary precision could be transformed by a major new research programme at the University of Strathclyde.

Despite continued gender disparity in engineering, girls are edging ahead in biomedical engineering interest.

For the first time, Primary Engineer welcomed a partner from the food and drink sector to support the “If you were an engineer, what would you do?” Leaders Award competition.

KP Snacks, home to some of the UK’s best-known snack brands, joined as regional partner in East Central England, helping pupils discover the creativity, problem-solving and technical skill behind food and drink manufacturing.

The way cancer-causing proteins accumulate in tumours may influence how effectively a promising new generation of medicines can remove them, a study suggests.

Dr Fragkoulis Kanavaris CEng CSci CEnv FIMMM FICT CAPM has been awarded the 2026 Hawley Award, which includes a £5,000 cash prize and a medal, at the Engineers Trust Awards Dinner in June. The award honours the most outstanding engineering innovation that delivers demonstrable benefit to the environment and will help to achieve Net Zero Carbon by at least 2050.

A University of Glasgow engineer is set to receive a major international award for his pioneering work to develop advanced detector technologies.

NatureScot’s consultation on the Scottish Planning Biodiversity Metric (SPBM) is now live

The Institution of Engineers in Scotland have launched their 2026-2027 programme!

Sunday (September 6) marks what would have been the 150^th birthday of an Aberdeen-educated professor who led the life-saving discovery of insulin.