Higher education, research, innovation and science minister James Lawless has announced new research from Skillnet Ireland which reveals that more than three-quarters (78%) of business leaders view ...

When we think about flood defence, we usually picture flood walls, storage tanks and large drainage networks. But a system is only as reliable as the everyday components that keep water moving and ...

An AI model built by US tech company OpenAI has hacked into the Australian government healthcare portal, Medicare. The news, which emerged on September 23, follows a string of similar incidents ...

Turning concrete buildings into large clean-energy storage systems is no longer just a futuristic idea. As cities push to eliminate carbon emissions, energy-storing cement could soon become the ...

Global material-handling manufacturer Combilift has launched a new initiative aimed at encouraging young people to pursue careers in engineering and manufacturing, following a Manufacturing Day event ...

Changeover is the single largest driver of OEE loss on a production line, accounting for an estimated 37% of overall OEE decline (Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 2020). Parts ...

G will bring faster speeds but the true innovations will go beyond what we consider a mobile network to do such as integrated sensing, writes John O'Donoghue, University College Cork. You may have ...

A new set of modular components allows users to create reconfigurable smart devices with electrical connections that keep working no matter which shape the structure forms. This electrical modularity ...

Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, this 'power plant' has become Vermont's largest power source. It is protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy, writes Jack Carroll ...

Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, this "power plant" has become Vermont's largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy, writes Jack Carroll.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has become the first American power utility authorized to build a commercial small modular reactor. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted a ...

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to transform polyethylene, one of the world's most common plastics, into gasoline- and diesel-like ...