With the success of Oscar-nominated movies such as The Imitation Game, breaking codes is suddenly quite sexy. Mind you, Aunty B would swear a feature-length film about limpet watching would be sexy – so long as it starred Benedict Cumberbatch. You’d think we’d surely have come on leaps and bounds from the days when Alan […]

Out of this world: the International Space Station. On March 6 and 7 the doors will be flung open and the public invited in to mingle among and marvel upon hitherto hidden wonders. The bad news first: sadly, this isn’t the opening of Willy Wonka’s first Scottish chocolate factory. Now the good news: the open

Hardhats thrown into the air please, people! This just in from top brass. The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) shows a resurgence of growth in the regions and nations is driving a strong fightback . . . with arrows pointing upwards here, here and here. Better yet, word on their street is this renaissance could

Way back it was Bob the Builder, merrily fixing the world in his blue overalls and yellow hardhat. Most recently, superheroes have saved the world in a Hollywood blockbuster, using nothing more than the building blocks they were standing in. You don’t need to hear a wolf whistle to realise that, right now, the construction

Space and engineering go together like Nutella and porridge ­– an often overlooked, yet in our minds, essential partnership. After all, this marriage has helped shape our understanding of the planets, brought a deeper appreciation of the stars, carried us off into the infinities of solar systems, opened up the portal to celestial bodies in

Everything you ever needed to know about engineering is contained in the following aphorism. To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, it is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be! You see, engineers are not here to save the world with existential

So Taylor Swift has had her Instagram account hijacked, with subsequent threats to leak photographs of the singer in the scuddy. Entirely unfazed, the 25-year-old pop princess tweeted: “Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack. PS any hackers saying they have nudes? Psssh you’d love that wouldn’t you! Have fun photoshopping cause you

Go on, admit it! We’ve all done it. That recurring tickly cough or strangely swollen big toe leads us not to our GP’s surgery but straight to the computer and the great god Google . . . and, of course, into a specimen jar full of trouble. Hit the panic button! That big toe is

Once upon a time the only Cybermen to fear were the tinfoil type from Mondas that scared the bejaysus out of Dr Who and his legion of sofa cushion-shielded fans. Today, however, with the continued integration of the Internet into our work lives and homes, businesses and government bodies, there is a new and altogether

Top musicians, comedians, politicians and media figures take to streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh to sell The Big Issue as part of INSP #VendorWeek Big Sell Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, members of Chvrches, Twin Atlantic, The View, Twilight Sad and Mogwai, and s1jobs Managing Director Ewan Stark, will be among the high-profile guest vendors joining