
Jon Excell
Editor and Publisher at The Engineer (magazine)
Editor, Journalist, Guitarist, Omnivore
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1 week ago |
theengineer.co.uk | Jon Excell
The global space economy - once the sole preserve of governments - is growing and changing rapidly as a host of entrepreneurs and new space innovators eye up the potential of opportunities, ranging from asteroid mining and orbital data centres, to space-based solar power and zero-gravity drug development. Indeed, according to analysts, commercial activities now account for almost 80 per cent of a sector that’s predicted to grow from $630 billion in 2023 to $1.8 trillion by 2035.
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1 month ago |
theengineer.co.uk | Jon Excell
Nationwide power shortages brought chaos to Spain and Portugal this Monday (28th April): crippling mobile networks, bringing airports and rail networks to a standstill and leaving millions without electricity. And whilst power is now gradually being restored across most of the affected areas, the initial cause of the blackouts remain unclear, with some experts cautioning that it could take many weeks, or even months, to complete a full investigation.
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2 months ago |
theengineer.co.uk | Jon Excell
Disruptive innovations often have the most unlikely origin stories. In the case of the Black Swan - a fixed-wing unmanned drone that promises to reshape the world of airfreight - it was its inventor’s hankering for Bulgarian cheese that kicked things off.
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2 months ago |
theengineer.co.uk | Jon Excell
Due to come into effect on 2nd April, the tariffs are the latest step in an accelerating trade war between the US and its partners and allies, and are expected to be followed by levies on a wide-range of other imported goods. The announcement triggered an immediate fall in the share price of car makers around the world with Vauxhall maker Stellantis seeing a 6.4 per cent drop and the world’s biggest carmaker Toyota seeing a two per cent fall.
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Mar 4, 2025 |
theengineer.co.uk | Jon Excell
Category: Healthcare & Medical Project: The Children’s Adaptive Deep brain stimulation for Epilepsy Trial (‘CADET’) Partners: Department of Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital with Amber Therapeutics Ltd, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford; Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford; Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London Last year, UK clinicians...
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