Tag: engineering

Cement is a carbon monster — but scientists are taking a cue from seashells to make it tougher, safer, and ...

Chimpanzees select and engineer tools with surprising mechanical precision to extract termites.

How one amazing YouTuber turned a 3D printer into an automated tattoo machine.

An engineer’s clever artificial glaciers bring water back to parched Himalayan fields.

The crossing will connect China's most densly populated bay areas, home to over 86 million people.

Some of these are centuries before their time.

This jaw dropper is the Wärtsilä RT-flex96C, the world’s largest and most powerful diesel engine in the world today.

The approach could save $1.4 billion in Australia alone.

This is not good for water quality, researchers warn.

This could revolutionize the field of crop protection.

"Our work has validated that the science is clear—vaccines are extremely safe,"

They really are an underappreciated invention -- it took a lot of work!

Gifts that will keep the gears of love well oiled.

To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.

The resolution density of today's displays is nearing its limits but a novel technology could change all that.

Over the past few years there has been much talk about the importance of scientific development in Africa. With the ...

Every year, the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) in Copenhagen welcomes renowned designers and engineers to submit designs that integrates ...

Image via Yerka. Depending on where you live, bike stealing can be a distant threat or a constant worry, but ...

Photo: Wikimedia Commons The humongous grey whale and the skipjack tuna, though of contradicting sizes, both employ similar propelling mechanisms ...

A computer model of the Contour Crafting Robotic Construction System. Basically, huge 3-D printers and tools would automatically build civil ...

(c) Wiki Commons This "How to" may not be that relevant in modern times, but in the XIV and XV ...

The Peruvian capital of Lima, along with its outskirts, is plagued by a vicious drought, which coupled with pollution and ...

As I was telling you in a previous article, researchers from NASA have created a high-res gravity map for the ...

There were 5.4 million automobile crashes on U.S. roads in 2010, killing 33 000 people and injuring more than 2.2 ...

Since they were first invented in 1931, aerogels have become widely used in the industry, mostly for insulation purposes, thanks ...

According to biblical account, the Tower of Babel was an enormous tower whose top was intended to reach for the ...

Scientists at MIT and Harvard University teamed up to figure out what would be the simplest 3-D structure capable of ...

The now retired Concorde turbojets were the fastest civilian airliners in the world, capable of carrying passengers from Paris to ...

This is the kind of engineering feat that sounds so preposterous, so crazy, so ... foolish, that it might actually ...

Yesterday NASA tested a 18,000 pound mock-up of the ambitious Orion spacecraft in a water basin, to simulate how it ...

UAE might harbor in its Dubai oasis the world's current tallest building, its Burj tower, but neighboring Saudi Arabia isn't ...

An Australian engineer boosts that he has successfully managed to build a working hover bike, one, he claims, that you ...

In what can only be described as an incredible natural engineering feat, fire ants in times of floods have the ...

Well despite what you may think, the oil industry is doing better than ever. With a length of 468 meters, ...

The term "social engineering" is often misunderstood; what it refers to is the act of manipulating people (or masses of ...

In a previous article you had the chance to read about the seven wonders of the ancient world, which remained ...