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Dear Evil Engineer: Could I hurl satellites into orbit with a trebuchet?

Planning laws relaxed for undersea cable linking Moroccan and UK energy grids

Secret London spy tunnels to become WWII museum

Ban on various single-use plastics comes into force this weekend

How mechanics found in nature could make quantum computing a reality

‘High-entropy’ semiconductor could be processed at room temperature

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Averting Armageddon: the mission that knocked an asteroid off course

National Grid ‘cautiously optimistic’ the UK will avoid blackouts this winter

Scotland can't afford its ambitious infrastructure plan, auditor warns

Fingernail-sized robot autonomously travels 10 metres without battery power

Britain to build the world's most powerful laser

Forecast Catastrophe: how a network of sensors saves lives in Colombia

FTC and 17 states sue Amazon for illegally maintaining market dominance

UK carbon capture projects consider moving abroad for more financial support

Development on controversial Rosebank oil field given the go-ahead

UK tech sector valued at £817bn

1.5°C global warming limit still possible due to renewables growth, according to study

Water companies to pay back £114m for missing performance targets

Rolls-Royce nozzle breakthrough brings hydrogen plane engines closer to reality

Amazon to invest up to $4bn in ChatGPT rival

Nasa capsule brings back the largest asteroid sample ever collected

Government ditches energy efficiency taskforce six months in

Backlash builds over possible scrapping of HS2 Manchester link

Green hydrogen sector hampered by high costs and lack of support – report

Carmakers urge the EU to delay 10 per cent tax on British cars

Climate change contributed to Libya’s devastating floods, study finds

UK council’s trial smart street lamps equipped with 5G and EV chargers

Microsoft's reworked Activision deal gets preliminary UK approval

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Comment: Why technological transformation matters in manufacturing

Nasa’s plan to bring back Mars samples is not 'credible’, says review

US proposes strict space junk rules for private firms to cut collision risk

Scotland signs ‘blueprint’ deal with onshore wind industry

George RR Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and other authors sue ChatGPT owner

Automakers slam Sunak's decision to delay petrol car ban

Hunterston B defuelling marks end of an era for UK’s second-generation nuclear plants

Unmodified smartphone makes first-ever call using satellite-based 5G

Major methane leak detected from space

Volvo to make its last diesel vehicle in ‘early 2024’

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Edinburgh tram project suffered ‘litany of avoidable failures’, inquiry finds

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