Fukushima’s Nuclear Waste Disposal
In 2011, the shores of Japan were shaken by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake that spawned a 14 metre-high tsunami, flooding the…
Talking Engineering (5) with Phillip Lee
Episode 5 of Talking Engineering: An Interview with Phillip Lee In 7 years, Phillip completed 5 PhDs’ worth of research (to…
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Meeting our meat
What makes a steak appealing? Is it the crispiness of the outside textures contrasted with the tenderness of the inner…
Turbomachines
1.0. Introduction: On the 25th of August 2020, a Tokyo-based engineering company, SkyDrive Inc., carried out the first ever successful test of a piloted eVTOL (electric vertical…
Food Quality Testing using Spectroscopy
One of the most important factors of success in any industry is the quality of the products you sell. This…
Graphene
Graphene is one of the most exciting developments in material science in the last 50 years. Although originally discovered in…
Irrational Powers (Part 1)
The solution discussion to Problem of the Week 11 may have got you thinking, what does it mean to raise…
Interview with Nobel Prize Physicist, Professor John Michael Kosterlitz (1)
Image Credits: Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud We were lucky enough to have an interview with Professor John Michael…
The marathon limit: just how fast can we go?
On the 12th of October 2019, a mark that was once seen as impossible was broken by Eliud Kipchoge. Crossing the…