Tanya Weaver

Warwick

Assistant Editor at Engineering & Technology (E&T) Magazine

I write, edit, run, parent, bake, read, keep bees… not all at once and some more than others. Assistant Editor at the IET’s E+T magazine.

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Plan to pedestrianise 1.1km stretch of Oxford Street gains backing from public and businesses

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced he will move ahead with “bold plans” to pedestrianise Oxford Street. Under the proposed changes, traffic will be banned for a 0.7-mile (1.1km) stretch of Oxford Street between Orchard Street and Oxford Circus up to Great Portland Street. The hope is that it will attract more people once again to this shopping mecca, which has seen a decline in footfall in recent years with the growth of online shopping and out-of-town retail parks.
Red Arrows go green for King’s birthday flypast with sustainable fuels

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

The King’s birthday flypast featured a dramatic aerial display from the Red Arrows, which for the first time were powered using renewable fuels. At 1pm on Saturday (14 June), as part of King Charles’ birthday celebrations, over 30 Royal Air Force (RAF) planes flew over Buckingham Palace in a ceremonial flypast. As every year, the grand finale featured a dramatic aerial display by the pilots of the RAF aerobatic team flying the Red Arrows.
Air India crash: Early speculation points to possible dual-engine failure

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

Early speculations on the fatal crash in India last week of the Air India-operated Boeing 787 Dreamliner point to possible dual-engine failure. On Thursday (12 June), the aeroplane crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad, India, en route to London Gatwick. Of the 242 passengers and crew onboard only one person survived, and an additional 38 fatalities occurred on the ground. This makes it the deadliest aviation disaster in India in nearly two decades.
7,000 cases of AI cheating among university students just the ‘tip of the iceberg’

1 week ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

The extent of AI cheating at universities is significant and increasingly going undetected, a survey by The Guardian has found. Academic misconduct among university students is nothing new. But with the rise of generative AI it is getting easier to do – and easier to get away with too. A recent survey by The Guardian shows how the rise of the generative AI tool ChatGPT directly correlates with AI cheating among university students. ChatGPT was released for public use in late 2022.
NESO to start reordering UK electricity grid connections queue from late July

2 weeks ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has published a July timeline for developers to submit evidence of their transmission projects, ahead of the upcoming reordering of the grid connections queue. In April 2025, energy regulator Ofgem approved the NESO’s proposed reforms to transform the grid connection process.
Spending Review 2025: All the engineering and technology announcements

2 weeks ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled the UK government’s Spending Review, setting out how public funds will be allocated over the next four years. Yesterday (11 June), Reeves stood up before parliament to reveal how more than £2tn of public spending will be divided up, with the hope these investments will increase GDP growth and bring about “national renewal”.
Eurostar to offer direct services from UK to Frankfurt and Geneva from early 2030s

2 weeks ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

Eurostar said it would bring about a “new golden age of international sustainable travel” as it vowed to run direct trains from the UK to Germany and Switzerland. The cross-Channel rail operator currently runs services in five countries: the UK, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany. Its most popular route is London to Paris, used by more than 280,000 passengers in 2024. Across all routes, Eurostar saw passenger numbers increase by 5% from 2023 to 2024, reaching 19.5 million.
Telescopes in Chile capture first-ever ground-based view of the Cosmic Dawn - study

2 weeks ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

Located high in the Andes mountains in northern Chile, the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) project, led primarily by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, is an observatory used to study the early universe. In a new study, a team used its telescopes to measure polarised microwave light to create a clearer picture of the Cosmic Dawn and the fingerprints left by the first stars in the relic Big Bang light.
CO₂ pollution captured and converted into cement precursor in study

2 weeks ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

A carbon capture method that converts carbon dioxide into metal oxalates – a precursor for cement production – has been developed by a team of researchers. Concrete is the most widely used manufactured material on earth. It has quite literally created the foundations of our built environment, but it comes with a massive environmental cost. The production of cement, the key ingredient of concrete, generates around 2.5 billion tonnes of CO every year – about 8% of the global total.
Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning verification device to launch in UK

2 weeks ago | eandt.theiet.org | Tanya Weaver

US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman’s biometric device The Orb – which distinguishes between real people and AI bots, helping to verify who is human online – is to be launched in the UK. Altman has been instrumental in making AI accessible to people through OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015. OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool, which launched in November 2022, boasts over 400 million weekly active users.