Chinook helicopter gets bogged down in a muddy field after mechanical failure

Chopper comes a cropper: Chinook helicopter gets bogged down in a muddy field after mechanical failure forced it to make emergency landing 20 miles from its base at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire The 40-year-old RAF Chinook was one of the first to join the RAF’s fleet in 1981 and flew in the first Gulf War … Read more

Unseen behind-the-scenes photos show Steven Spielberg’s 25ft mechanical shark during filming of Jaws

Rare behind-the-scenes photographs taken on the set of Jaws have surfaced 45 years after the classic film was released. The colour snaps were taken by Charlsie Bryant, the script supervisor for the 1975 film, and they have been in her family ever since. Many of her photos show the huge rubber shark out of the … Read more

Shanghai Primary school walks on mechanical legs to new location so the building can be preserved

Doing the school run! Primary school walks on mechanical legs to new location so the building can be preserved in its entirety in Shanghai The Lagena primary school was first built in 1935 according to local officials But a new construction project on the site will begin soon, completing in 2023 To save the building, … Read more

Robots: Scientists invent a mechanical arm to perform colonoscopies in ‘less painful’ procedure

An AI-powered robotic arm can perform ‘less painful’ colonoscopies to check for bowel cancer by using a magnet to externally steer a camera probe through the gut. The system — from a team led from Leeds — could prove to be the first major update in decades to the procedure, which is used some 100,000 … Read more

Barges are left high and dry after mechanical glitch DRAINS canal in under 90 minutes 

That sinking feeling: Barges tip over and submerge while over are left high and dry after mechanical glitch at sluice gate DRAINS canal in just 90 minutes Boats were left stranded on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Bath, Somerset, on Tuesday evening The canal level dropped by almost two metres in an hour and … Read more

British engineers may be forced to build outdated mechanical ventilators

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more

Cancer cells have ‘chemically assisted mechanical drills’ to penetrate healthy flesh

Deadly cancer cells have ‘chemically assisted mechanical drills’ that use brute force to penetrate healthy flesh and spread disease around the body Experts have been able to measure the force cancer cells apply for this first time They created their own ‘cancer cells’ in the lab and used a new imaging method  The drills — … Read more