Transport
How Norway is building the world’s first full-scale ship tunnel
Boring through a 300-metre-high mountain, a new tunnel will allow ships to navigate more safely through a dangerously exposed part...
Australian research is driving us closer to the cars of the future
A customised electric Renault is helping researchers in Brisbane understand the human-machine interface of automated cars and the challenges they...
How salvage engineers helped move the Ever Given
The giant container ship Ever Given was successfully refloated almost a week after it became lodged in Egypt’s Suez Canal...
Dust-busting engineers develop a deceptively simple solution to keep caravans clean
A team of former auto-industry engineers created a deceptively simple solution to a problem that afflicts tens of thousands of...
Three technologies keeping drivers safer on the road
Around the world, 1.35 million people die from road toll accidents per year — about 3700 deaths per day. Here...
Seeing Machines improves driver safety by monitoring for signs of fatigue
Seeing Machines, an Australian business founded in 2000, is developing systems that could one day be able to determine what...
How ‘talking’ cars could save lives on our roads
Digital communication technologies allowing cars to interpret their surroundings and alert drivers to potential hazards could reduce vehicle crashes by...
Formula One takes engineering from the race track to the city street
For 70 years, Formula One has been profoundly shaped by engineers. Their innovations, in turn, have shaped the technology that...
This 100-year-old rail line could connect Canberra to the coast
How do you design a railway to safely deliver a freight train down an impossibly steep slope? For a recent...
Qantas farewells the Boeing 747, an engineering marvel that ruled the skies
With Qantas retiring its last 747 this month, and Boeing announcing it will end production of the aircraft, create takes...
