Framing AI as the next great global battleground, the Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping federal action plan to supercharge innovation, cut red tape, and outpace strategic rivals like China.
Titled “Winning the AI race:…
Category: Engineering
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Work to Resume on NOAA’s Atlas 15 But Other Climate Change Sites Go Dark
The Trump administration has reversed at least one of its actions to remove climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s websites with a recent decision to continue development of a database aimed at predicting flash…
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UK’s Kier Group Names New CEO as Andrew Davies Exits After Six Years
London-based construction and services firm Kier Group announced in a July 22 financial update that CEO Andrew Davies will step down Oct. 31 after six years at its helm, naming as his successor Executive Director Stuart Togwell, who is also the…
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Scientists uncover 27 million tons of nanoplastic in the Atlantic
A silent crisis is unfolding beneath the surface of our oceans, and it’s worse than feared.
Scientists from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University have uncovered a staggering 27 million tons of…
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Q&A: New York MTA’s Juliette Michaelson on NYC’s Congestion Tolling Program
After years of study and planning, and not a little controversy, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) activated the nation’s first congestion pricing program on Jan. 5, 2025. Under a state-mandated effort to reduce traffic…
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New Wi-Fi fingerprint system re-identifies people without devices
Surveillance in the digital age is no longer limited to cameras and smartphones. From facial recognition to GPS logs, the tools used to monitor people have grown increasingly sophisticated.
Now, researchers in Italy have shown that even…
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Japan’s scientists find bioplastic that vanishes 80% even in deep sea
A Japanese research team has demonstrated that a novel microbial polyester called poly(D‑lactate‑co‑3‑hydroxybutyrate), or LAHB, can biodegrade on the deep‑sea floor while conventional bio‑based plastics remain stubbornly…
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247-million-year-old fossil reveals ‘wonder’ reptile with unique skin
A 247-million-year-old tree-dwelling reptile has been identified through the fossils discovered way back in the 1930s.
Paleontologists from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany, have named the reptile Mirasaura grauvogeli,…
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US cracks alloy code to shrink nuclear fuel disposal time by 20 years
A redesigned carrier for spent nuclear fuel has been implemented at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to accelerate the material’s processing for permanent disposal. This new design resolves a prior issue where the original carriers failed to…
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Massive 123-foot wind wings to propel giant tankers and slash CO2
A UK maritime engineering firm has confirmed that its revolutionary WindWings propulsion system will be installed on two newly built LR2 dual-fuel tankers in one of the first large-scale wind propulsion deployments for this vessel…
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