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• In higher definition

  Factual programming is showing the value of HDTV beyond more pixels and bigger screens. E&T gets square eyes.

  
  

• Beside the seaside

  To mark the end of this year's European holiday season, E&T takes a plunge into the past and present of beach and coastal engineering.

  
  

• Cooling down

  Unlike in most parts of Europe, it was another hot summer in the US. E&T looks at the state of air-conditioning engineering in the States and elsewhere in the world.

  
  

• Fix it in post

  Simon Robinson, chief scientist at The Foundry talks about movie special effects and their foray into 3D.

  
  

• Extreme probing

  How to test electronics out in the field without messing up the results.

  
  

• Feeling the way

  Simplicity provides the focus for a new generation of electronic robots as researchers try to work out how little they can get away with in terms of sensors.

  
  

• Ore inspired

  Mining operations are turning to increased control and automation to meet the raw materials needs of China.

  
  

• The grandest challenge

  A range of weird and wonderful autonomous vehicles has recently taken part in the final of a major MoD science and technology competition - The Grand Challenge.

  
  

• City of dreams

  Abu Dubai is pinning its economic future on innovative, renewable and low-carbon energy technologies. We look at Masdar City a purpose-built 'ecopolis' designed to showcase the fruits at the heart of this multi-billion dollar initiative. 

  
  

• Viewpoint

  Can de-duplication have stave off the data avalanche? By Nick Cater, Iron Mountain Digital.

  
  

• My Way - JANET(UK)

  The Joint Academic NETwork (JANET) brings the UK's educational and research communities together. E&T speaks exclusively to the head of the ICT team that manages it.

  
  

• IT security: have data? Will travel

  Data is leaking out of your organisation by hook or by crook: but how much of it is really worth worrying about? Plus: Win Kaspersky Internet Security software worth £40 in our competition.

  
  

• Big-league player

  We examine how German tyre maker Continental has transformed itself into a top automotive systems maker.

  
  

• Evolution of manufacturing

  Are manufacturers up to the challenge of taking advantage of opportunities to focus on non-core activities?

  
  

• Serving up change

  A fresh approach to continuous improvement has enabled a plastics technology group to make major savings.

  
  

• The future is femto

  Mobile operators want us to have basestations in our homes. E&T finds out what it will take for that to happen.

  
  

• Hi-def goes wireless

  The emerging standards battle over wireless HDTV.

  
  

• Why managers need to be more city-savvy

  Engineering management needs to address the convoluted world of high finance in order to survive the credit crunch.

  
  

• You couldn't make this up

  Why do managers keep inventing meaningless words to describe what they do?

  
  

• The lost technology of bathing

  E&T remembers that archetypal British invention - the bathing machine.