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  • Europe’s first pilot line for recycling rare earth magnets opens in France

    France has launched Europe’s first rare earth magnet recycling and manufacturing pilot line, aiming to reduce reliance on Chinese imports.

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    E+T Magazine in Recycling
  • Rising temperatures will worsen aircraft noise pollution across Europe, study warns

    Noise pollution is expected to increase in the coming years because of increasingly warm air.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • Government approves 25 major infrastructure projects on its path to reach 150

    Since coming to parliament, the UK government has green‑lit 25 major infrastructure projects, marking a key milestone in its plan to “get Britain building again”.

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    E+T Magazine in Management of Technology
  • Britain strengthens energy grid to avoid blackouts like Spain’s April outage

    Britain’s energy grid is being “future-proofed” against the kind of events that saw a full-scale blackout across the Iberian Pen

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    E+T Magazine in Power Equipment
  • Industry insight: How early transformer monitoring can stop the next Heathrow-like power blackout

    Transformers are critical to a stable power grid, but aging infrastructure is driving a surge in blackouts as demand outpaces su

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Power Equipment
  • Fully autonomous heavy-duty truck operates on Belgian public road in world first

    Swedish transport tech start-up Einride has driven a fully autonomous heavy-duty truck on a public road in Belgium for the fir

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Electric Vehicles
  • Inside Europe’s uneasy push to rebuild its military muscle

    In an increasingly dangerous world, big questions are being asked of Europe’s ability to fight off attacks. So how is the contin

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Management of Technology
  • Global fossil fuel output more than double what is needed to meet 1.5°C climate target

    Governments are planning to extract more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, a report has found.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Climate Change
  • Nissan and Wayve test AI self-driving cars in Tokyo ahead of 2027 launch

    UK AI start-up Wayve and Nissan have begun testing self-driving tech on production vehicles ahead of a planned 2027 launch.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Artificial Intelligence
  • Gatwick plans to add 100,000 flights a year after winning second runway approval

    Gatwick Airport has been given permission to build a £2.2bn second runway that will increase its flight capacity by around 100,000 a year.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Built Environment Technologies
  • England faces recycling crisis as flexible plastic collections become mandatory by 2027

    Kerbside collection of flexible plastics – such as crisp packets, bubble wrap and bread bags – will become mandatory in England by March 2027, but the UK currently lacks the recycling infrastructure to cope with the materials, North London Waste Authority has warned.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Recycling
  • Tea plants thrive in lunar soil after space farming breakthrough

    Tea plants can grow in lunar soil, researchers have found – a discovery that could make a manned base on the Moon a more realistic proposition.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Space
  • Microsoft to build world’s most powerful AI data centre in Wisconsin

    Microsoft has announced it is investing $4bn to build a new data centre in Wisconsin that will have “10X the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today”.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Artificial Intelligence
  • Melting sea ice opens China-Europe shipping shortcut

    A Chinese firm is preparing to launch a cargo vessel along a route spanning Russia’s northern coast that has only been made viable due to a retreating ice shelf brought about by climate change.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Climate Change
  • Two major European science organisations collaborate to advance fusion energy

    Fusion for Energy (F4E) and CERN – Europe’s largest physics laboratory – have joined forces to accelerate the development of fusion energy.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Nuclear Power
  • New data platform to track industry’s electricity and gas use to support decarbonisation targets

    UK Power Networks has launched a shared data platform to track how energy is used across the UK’s industrial sector and help accelerate decarbonisation.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Computing
  • Baltic flights disrupted as Russia escalates GPS spoofing attacks

    Russia has been using GPS jamming and spoofing to disrupt orbiting satellite navigation systems which presents major risks to ci

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Satellites
  • World’s first commercial 5G railway network on 1,900MHz tested in Germany

    Nokia and Deutsche Bahn have successfully trialled the world’s first commercial 5G network on the 1900 MHz band for railways.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Railways
  • UK and US strike deal on AI, fusion and nuclear energy as Trump begins state visit

    The UK and US have announced the Tech Prosperity Deal to accelerate advances in AI, quantum and nuclear energy, coinciding with US President Donald Trump’s state visit.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • Google announces £5bn AI investment in UK including data centre

    Google’s parent company Alphabet will invest £5bn in the UK over the next two years to help “power the UK’s AI economy”.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Business Planning
  • Huge 65-metre turbine-generator sets headed to the Czech Republic’s largest nuclear plant

    Two replacement turbine-generator sets will be installed at the Czech Republic’s largest nuclear reactor facility in a major upgrade project.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Nuclear Power
  • Teardown: Fairphone 6

    Fairphones are specificially designed to be easily repaired by the user, so how does the latest model align with the company’s f

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Sustainable Development
  • IET comment: Software is the rocket fuel for the next space age

    Beth Probert looks at the technologies intended to keep astronauts healthy.

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Space
  • Could hyperloop still be the answer to future transport demands?

    It’s been over a decade since the dream of super-fast inter-city travel via hyperloops was promised. Where’s the technology now?

    E+T Magazine
    E+T Magazine in Research and Innovation
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