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  • BYD’s 880% UK EV sales surge shows appetite for cheaper electric cars

    BYD, the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, has said that the UK is now its biggest market outside of China after posting a record 880% growth in the last year.

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    E+T Magazine in Electric Vehicles
  • Terrestrial lidar technology transforming study of forest ecosystems

    Scanning forests with advanced laser technology is helping researchers better understand forest ecosystem dynamics.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • Jaguar Land Rover restarts production after hackers force UK-wide shutdown

    Jaguar Land Rover is preparing to restart operations at its UK plant following a devastating cyber attack that has kept it offline since August.

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    E+T Magazine in Automotive Engineering
  • Solar now world’s cheapest power, but grid integration a key challenge

    Solar energy is now so cost-effective that it is the ‘cheapest option’ for electricity generation, but connecting it to existing power networks remains a challenge, according to a University of Surrey study.

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    E+T Magazine in Renewable Energy
  • ‘A matter of national security’: scientists propose solar-sailing probe to warn of space storms

    Scientists have proposed launching a space probe that travels on solar winds to provide early warning systems about potentially damaging solar eruptions.

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    E+T Magazine in Space
  • Transform global food systems to slash greenhouse gas emissions, report says

    Food systems generate nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions – but a new EAT–Lancet Commission report has found that

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    E+T Magazine in Air Pollution
  • World’s first commercial underwater data centre to be sunk off coast of Shanghai

    China will become the first country to operate a commercial underwater data centre when it sinks servers off the coast of Shanghai later this month.

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    E+T Magazine in Computing
  • German police deploy laser system to stop drone intrusions at Munich Airport

    German police have installed a temporary laser system near Munich Airport to repel ongoing intrusions by drones that are disrupting air traffic.

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    E+T Magazine in Aerospace
  • Industry insight: The hidden energy drain in food production

    Walk into any food or beverage plant and you’re likely to find two contrasting worlds operating side by side.

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    E+T Magazine in Power Utilisation
  • 3D-printed heat exchanger set to power Airbus’ future hydrogen-powered aircraft

    Advanced additively manufactured heat exchangers will feature in Airbus’ ZEROe hydrogen-electric propulsion systems.

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    E+T Magazine in Renewable Energy
  • Concrete ‘battery’ that stores and releases energy could power our built environment

    Supercapacitors integrated into concrete could turn buildings into massive energy storage systems, according to new research from MIT.

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    E+T Magazine in Power Conversion
  • Amazon resumes Arizona drone deliveries after crane collision

    Amazon’s fledgling drone delivery service in Arizona is set to resume after being briefly suspended following a collision with a crane.

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    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • Arc spacecraft enables mission-critical deliveries anywhere on Earth in under an hour

    US start-up Inversion has revealed an on-demand delivery service that uses its reusable Arc spacecraft to send packages to anywhere on Earth within an hour.

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    E+T Magazine in Space
  • Meta to mine conversations with AI chatbot to push targeted ads

    Meta has said that data from conversations with its Meta AI chatbot will be used to target advertising across its platforms.

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    E+T Magazine in Artificial Intelligence
  • Giant cargo ship fitted with rotor sails in bid to decarbonise shipping

    Four rotor sails have been installed on a 325,000-deadweight ton cargo ship by UK firm Anemoi Marine Technologies as part of a technology demonstration designed to cut carbon emissions on long-range shipping.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • E+T Podcast: Episode 17 | Is communication the key to solving Britain's housing crisis?

    In this episode of E+T of the Page, Tim Fry, Jack Loughran, Tanya Weaver, and guest Oliver Deed, co-founder of communications consultancy ECF, explore why public opinion and the built environment are often at odds—and how better communication could help bridge the gap.

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  • Taiwan rejects US proposal to shift 50% of chip production to US soil

    The US has proposed that half of Taiwan’s semiconductor production take place on American soil – a plan Taiwan has firmly reject

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    E+T Magazine in Management of Technology
  • Mobile wallet payments surge past cards in the UK, while cash use collapses

    More than half of UK adults are now using mobile wallets to make payments while cash usage continues to decline, trade association UK Finance has said.

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    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • Generative AI such as ChatGPT not destroying jobs as feared, finds US study

    Despite fears of AI’s impact on the job market, Yale University-led research has found that the US is ‘not in an economy-wide jobs apocalypse right now’.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • Fracking to be permanently banned in the UK

    Energy minister Ed Miliband preparing to announce a total ban on fracking in the UK, says campaign group 38 Degrees.

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    E+T Magazine in Ethical Aspects
  • Imgur blocks UK users, risking chaos for sites relying on its image hosting

    Image hosting site Imgur has blocked access to UK users after threats of fines from the Information Commissioner’s Office over the website’s approach to its underage users.

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    E+T Magazine in Ethical Aspects
  • Ultra-fast process recovers rare earth elements from electronic waste – new study

    A new electrical process that recovers valuable resources from discarded e-waste magnets has been developed by researchers at Ri

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    E+T Magazine in Recycling
  • Fibre-optic cable networks repurposed to detect sinkholes deep underground

    Sinkholes and other geohazards could be detected early using fibre-optic cables installed as part of internet infrastructure, a new study has found.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
  • $2.5tn at risk as global construction faces relentless uncertainty in 2025

    Persistent uncertainty is set to wipe $2.5tn from the value of construction activity globally this year, according to research from Currie & Brown, a global construction consultancy.

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    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
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