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1.January 1877 – Sir Titus Salt obituary (theengineer.co.uk)
1 point by timthorn 4 days ago | past | discuss
2.Life, Death and Mowing (cam.ac.uk)
16 points by timthorn 64 days ago | past | 11 comments
3.Misha Glenny to Present BBC Radio 4's in Our Time (bbc.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 80 days ago | past
4.Battery tracks: the green innovations that could power the railway's next era (theengineer.co.uk)
5 points by timthorn 85 days ago | past
5.UK banks still run software code written more than 60 years ago (computerweekly.com)
26 points by timthorn 5 months ago | past | 24 comments
6.ChatGPT seemed to think on the fly when put through an Ancient Greek math puzzle (cam.ac.uk)
1 point by timthorn 5 months ago | past
7.The Release of Doom (bbc.co.uk)
3 points by timthorn 6 months ago | past
8.Gut microbes could protect us from toxic 'forever chemicals' (cam.ac.uk)
36 points by timthorn 7 months ago | past | 7 comments
9.From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Ōtautahi-Oxford ISO model (arxiv.org)
1 point by timthorn 7 months ago | past
10.Asteroid named after first woman at Cambridge paid to observe the heavens (cam.ac.uk)
1 point by timthorn 7 months ago | past
11.UK's Vertical VX4 eVTOL flies outside Kemble circuit for first time (flyer.co.uk)
51 points by timthorn 8 months ago | past | 27 comments
12.Insect protein could be 13.5 times worse for climate than soy (feedandadditive.com)
2 points by timthorn 9 months ago | past
13.The fluid mechanics of poohsticks (2020) (royalsocietypublishing.org)
3 points by timthorn 9 months ago | past
14.Six technologies that helped win the Second World War (2017) (theengineer.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 9 months ago | past
15.New airport rules will get rid of boarding passes and check-in (thetimes.com)
9 points by timthorn 10 months ago | past | 5 comments
16.Mathematical Equations Are Slashing America's Electric Bills (simonsfoundation.org)
3 points by timthorn 10 months ago | past
17.'Beyond what we'd hoped': SKA-Low's first glimpse of the Universe (skao.int)
2 points by timthorn 11 months ago | past
18.What makes marking unfair? Look harder at validity (heatherfblog.wordpress.com)
1 point by timthorn 11 months ago | past
19.February 1960: SNAP – the dawn of nuclear satellite propulsion (theengineer.co.uk)
1 point by timthorn on Feb 13, 2025 | past
20.UK CMA publishes provisional findings in cloud services market investigation (gov.uk)
2 points by timthorn on Jan 29, 2025 | past
21.Airlander, the biggest aircraft, may get off ground (thetimes.com)
3 points by timthorn on Jan 27, 2025 | past
22.UK's first vertical launch rocket will blast off this year (thetimes.com)
1 point by timthorn on Jan 16, 2025 | past | 1 comment
23.Late Great Engineers: John Fowler – Mastermind of the London Underground (theengineer.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn on Jan 14, 2025 | past
24.January 1880: Edison's electric light (theengineer.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn on Jan 13, 2025 | past
25.Thousands duped by hoax firework display 'created by AI' (thetimes.com)
2 points by timthorn on Jan 1, 2025 | past
26.Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers (theregister.com)
5 points by timthorn on Dec 28, 2024 | past
27.Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals (cam.ac.uk)
2 points by timthorn on Dec 13, 2024 | past
28.Project will utilise muons to assess aging infrastructure (theengineer.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn on Dec 9, 2024 | past
29.A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery (cam.ac.uk)
1 point by timthorn on Nov 29, 2024 | past | 1 comment
30.November 1861: Chalmers' under Channel railway (theengineer.co.uk)
23 points by timthorn on Nov 18, 2024 | past | 9 comments

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