A team of engineers led by Prof Shanmugam Kumar of @uofgengineering.bsky.social have adapted a medical imaging technique to give 3D-printed materials the ability to sense where they are being damaged and track how that damage develops in real time. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Researchers and students from @uofgengineering.bsky.social are planning to boldly go where no dram has gone before with the launch of a new project to distil whisky in space. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Dr Sam Bayliss and Dr Alistair Inglis of @uofgengineering.bsky.social are part of an international collaboration, led by the University of Tokyo, whose work could lead to a new generation of quantum sensors. Read more about a just-published paper from the team here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social are set to lead a new centre which is aiming to help businesses benefit from adopting robotics technologies, thanks to new funding from Innovate UK. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

An international team of physicists led by researchers from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social have developed a new method of deducing the precise colour of laser light by using an image that rotates as the laser’s frequency shifts. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Congratulations to Prof Robert Hadfield of @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who will be presented with an IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award next week for his pioneering work to develop advanced detector technologies. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Congrats to Prof Margaret Lucas and Prof Colin McInnes of @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who will receive Baird of Bute Awards tomorrow for their contributions to innovation and aviation. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Superconducting technologies could supercharge the decarbonisation of transport, saving gigatonnes of emissions in the future, a landmark new paper from Dr Wenjuan Song and Dr Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami of @uofgengineering.bsky.social suggests. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A breakthrough new development in communications research led by a team from @uofgengineering.bsky.social may have solved a key problem with one of the enabling technologies set to underpin the 6G networks of the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

First up in our new team interviews: @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social from @glasgow.ac.uk, talking about how their team is engineering bacteria to produce growth factors that guide stem cells. 🦠🔧 Our @horizoneu.bsky.social project’s goal is better bone marrow models and more textured cultivated meat.

#Cybersecurity research on digital twins lacks ‘real-world’ organisational insight, warns new #TransiT research from University of Glasgow More here: tinyurl.com/25v8v3bv #DigitalTwin #Governance #SecurityCulture #Transport #Decarbonisation @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgengineering.bsky.social

Professor Colin McInnes of @uofgengineering.bsky.social has written a great new piece for @uk.theconversation.com on the developing technologies which may help us take interstellar travel from a sci-fi concept to a real-world application in the years ahead. Read it below!

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Miniaturisation of sensors and light sails for propulsion mean we could reach the stars within a person’s lifetime.

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An ultra-small antenna can wirelessly transmit data through tissue to external devices, which could help diagnose neurodegenerative diseases earlier, deliver drugs on demand or even deliver neuromodulation treatments for conditions like epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease. www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Congratulations to Simon Fraser, an MEng Aeronautical Engineering student in @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who has won the PEGASUS student competition for his project 'An Experimental Framework to Investigate Icy Plumes on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus.' Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Sophisticated new flight simulation software developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social which can accurately model the performance of firefighting helicopters could help train pilots to tackle wildfires more effectively in the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A new implantable device developed by researchers at @uofgengineering.bsky.social which aims to maximise the effectiveness of light-sensitive drugs could improve outcomes for bladder cancer patients in the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Prof Martin Lavery of @uofgengineering.bsky.social is leading the University's contribution to the University of Suffolk-led Quantum Optics Discovery (QOD) Lab, which was officially opened last week. Read more here: www.uos.ac.uk/about/news/2...

A new method to distribute cryptographic keys using terahertz waves developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social could help enable secure communication in the quantum-powered internet of the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Quantcore, a pioneering @glasgow.ac.uk spinout from @uofgengineering.bsky.social which is developing advanced quantum hardware for use across a wide range of industries has been awarded a major prize by @iop.org. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A prototype device developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social which has demonstrated record-breaking longevity could open up new frontiers in next-generation communications and computing technologies. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

New digital twin technology developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social which can manage the power consumption of idle devices could help save organisations thousands of pounds a year and reduce their carbon footprint. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A breakthrough development in nanofabrication from @uofgengineering.bsky.social could help support the development of new wireless, flexible, high-performance transparent electronic devices. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Congratulations to Dr Umer Ijaz of @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who has been elected by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences to receive a Foreign Fellowship. The Fellowship is a prestigious lifelong honour bestowed upon eminent international scholars. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A new development in wireless sensing technology led by @uofgengineering.bsky.social can reliably screen for five common pulmonary diseases. It could lead to breakthrough new forms of touch-free diagnostics. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A new technique which slashes the time taken to diagnose microbial infections from days to minutes could help save lives and open up a new front in the battle against antibiotic resistance, researchers at @uofgengineering.bsky.social say. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A new type of biodegradable circuit board developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social could help reduce the environmental harms of electronic waste. Once the circuits are no longer needed, 99% of their materials can be disposed of safely. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A collaboration between researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social and @esa.int has enabled a breakthrough in remote medicine which could help medics care, physically interact with patients, and deliver medicine from hundreds of miles away. Read more here: connectivity.esa.int/archives/new...

Interested in #Mechanobiology #BoneRegeneration and #GrowthFactor mimetics? Check out our paper in Small @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social by @finbariii.bsky.social. We show that viscosity unlocks the osteogenic activity of BMP-2 mimetic DWIVA @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social @uofgengineering.bsky.social 🧪

Leveraging Viscosity to Unlock the Osteogenic Potential of BMP‐2 Mimetic DWIVA

Dynamic interfaces based on supported lipid bilayers demonstrate that the osteogenic potential of the BMP-2 mimetic DWIVA can be harnessed by modulating substrate viscosity. This work highlights that....

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Dr Gilles Bailet of @uofgengineering.bsky.social explains how the #EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) and colleagues across the University of Glasgow - from technicians to lawyers - help move his research toward real‑world applications. #space #engineering #impact #spaceengineering #UofG