Category: Engineering

A new project kicked off in Japan is developing next-generation solar cells to install on industrial roofs. The film-type solar cells will reportedly be compatible with installing on roofs with low load-bearing capacity.

The project between…

A recent study modeled the catastrophic impact of a nuclear winter on global corn production.

A nuclear winter could occur after a large-scale nuclear war.

If this kind of war ever occurs, then the resulting firestorms would inject massive…

BWX Technologies has completed a new Uranium Nitride TRISO fuel production line at its Technology Centre in Lynchburg. 

Installing a chemical vapor infiltration furnace was the final step required to make the line operational. The facility…

Chinese engineers say they have cracked a fundamental bottleneck in stealth aircraft design with a new software platform that lets designers juggle hundreds of variables without piling on computing costs. 

The team, led by Huang Jiangtao at…

Archaeologists have unearthed 3,200-year-old fragments of a warrior’s bronze chest armor in southern Moravia near Brno, Czech Republic. 

It comes from the Late Bronze Age — a time often linked to the Trojan War, famously told in…

Sandia National Laboratories has developed a mobile, high-security vault to safeguard nuclear weapons in temporary or remote locations where permanent facilities aren’t an option.

The project, created at the request of the National Nuclear…

Chinese robotics startup Robotera, a spinoff from Tsinghua University in Beijing, has unveiled its next-generation humanoid robot, the Robotera L7.

According to media reports, the full-sized humanoid, which is 5.7 feet (175 cm) tall, is now the…