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System Error warning dialog box

The wrong answers

Chipmakers are encountering atomic-level design problems. Is the future full of mistakes?

Latest articles

  • More opera than soap

    Formula One has never been short on controversy, with reports down the years of spying, lying and sex scandals prompting some observers to compare it to the best soap operas and a new episode is being played out as this issue of E&T goes to press.

  • Transition to the skies

    E&T reports on one of a new crop of flying cars: a futuristic unfolding vehicle made of carbon fibre, which is also one of the world’s most fuel-efficient planes.

  • Transmitted from pigs

    ...that’s clean energy and not mutated viruses, by the way. E&T reports.

Latest news

T-Rex from Walking with Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs on tour

Many will have seen the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series and marvelled at the CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) creations and now the dinosaurs have been brought to life and are starting a tour of the UK today, to be followed by a tour of 31 venues in Europe and then on to Asia.

I don't like the look of those raptors

Dinosaurs on tour - 'raptors in training

As the life-size prehistoric stars of Walking With Dinosaurs prepare to start a UK tour, E&T's Control editor presents two exclusive video interviews with the show’s director, the dinosaurs' creator and chief engineer.


windfarm

Green power could generate £70 billion for economy

Embracing wind and wave power could generate up to £70bn for the UK economy, a new report claims.

wavehub

Marine energy research buoy launched

Efforts to make Cornwall a world-leading centre for wave energy have moved a step closer with the launch of a two-tonne buoy off the coast of Falmouth.


Latest issue

E&T front cover 0911 - Space Invaders

E&T pockets a fistful of change and heads to the arcade with our Space Invaders-inspired cover. Exclusive articles this issue consider whether eradicating all bugs in circuit design is strictly necessary; F1's curtailed design budgets; how pigs are powering Buenos Aires business and the distinct possibility of a real-life flying car. Plus there's plenty more in our super soaraway range of sector-specific articles, along with comprehensive industry news and E&T's popular regular columns. 


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Features

  • Robot thespian

    Alas poor Yorick – I think you’ve been upstaged

    E&T meets the designers of the RoboThespian, the all-singing, all-dancing humanoid robot, which is entertaining and informing audiences around the world.

  • The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland

    Books

    E&T reviews three books for you including Dan Falk's "In search of time: Journeys along a curious dimension" and we announce the PoE&Try competition winner and launch the next challenge...

Special reports

Our special reports pull together stories, features and news on key topics of interest.

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