Edinburgh | Engineering & Technology magazine

Posts Tagged ‘Edinburgh’

E&T podcast previews new-look National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh

July 15, 2011

National Museum of Scotland

The new galleries open on 29 July

The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh reopens on 29 July 2011 after a massive refurbishment that has created new galleries housing thousands of exhibits. For its latest issue, E&T picked its ten favourite from the many illustrating Scotland’s contributions to scientific and technological innovation. Find out , what they are and listen to managing editor Dominic Lenton talking to the museum’s keeper of science and technology, Alexander Hayward, about them in E&T podcast 7.5.

Tags:Dominic Lenton, E&T, Edinburgh, Engineering, History, National Museum of Scotland, podcast, science, Technology
Posted in Education, Engineering, Science, Technology | Leave a Comment »

E&T magazine

E&T is the IET's magazine covering science, engineering and technology.
Latest news from E&T
- Chinese fastest supercomputer beats the US June 17, 2013
  Nicknamed the ‘Milky way-2,’ or Tianhe-2, the supercomputer built at the Chinese National University of Defence Technology is twice as fast the USA’s super machine Titan.
- Value of HS2 overestimated, according to think-tank June 17, 2013
  Evidence that HS2 will promote economic growth or tackle the north-south divide is "limited", according to a report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF).
- Students’ green driving race took off from Westminster June 17, 2013
  Covering the distance from London to Aberdeen, UK’s engineering students are fighting not to become the nation’s fastest but the most economic driver.
- Van makers warned to curb 'over-target' emissions June 17, 2013
  Vans currently sold in EU markets are outstripping an EU emissions target for 2017, and the European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned manufacturers to take action over the problem.
- World’s most advanced comms satellite shipped to launch site June 17, 2013
  Alphasat, the most sophisticated communications satellite ever built, has passed the final integration and testing and is now on the way to Kourou, French Guiana.
- GPU based neural network cleverer than Google's June 17, 2013
  The world’s largest artificial neural network, 7 times smarter than the one built by Google in 2012, aims at much more than just recognising cats.
- Intelligent glasses to benefit students and lecturers June 17, 2013
  Scientists at the University of Carlos III, Madrid (UC3M), have created an augmented reality-based teaching system which is capable of providing student feedback via intelligent glasses worn by a professor conducting a lecture, while the lecture is still in progress.
- Siemens closes down last solar energy business after failing to sell June 17, 2013
  German engineering firm Siemens is closing down its last solar energy business, thereby calling off a seven month search during which it failed to find a buyer.
- Huawei wants to crack smarphone market with Ascend P6 June 17, 2013
  Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei introduced the world's slimmest smartphone - Ascend P6, underlining the company’s ambition to compete with Apple and Samsung.
- HMS Queen Elizabeth nears completion June 16, 2013
  The final section of the HMS Queen Elizabeth has left BAE Systems's shipyard at Scotstoun in Glasgow, bound for Rosyth in Fife, where the final assembly will commence.
June 2013

M T W T F S S

« May

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Follow

Follow “Engineering & Technology magazine”

Powered by WordPress.com