A 2025 study on medaka embryos has revealed something remarkable: the size of a sperm’s head alone can determine whether or not it can trigger egg development across species through a process called gynogenesis.
In this rare form of…
Category: Engineering
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Construction of world’s 1st nuclear fusion plant starts in Washington
A Washington-based company has started the construction of a nuclear fusion facility in Chelan County, Orion. Helion Energy aims to produce low-cost, clean electric energy using a fuel derived from water.
The plan is to produce electricity…
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US tech helped spot lead-turn-to-gold in the world’s largest collider
Earlier in May this year, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detected the creation of gold nuclei inside the world’s largest atom smasher. The team at the ALICE detector at the LHC, composed of scientists from the University of…
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AEC Firms Invest in Technology for a Competitive Edge, So Can Yours
Rich Friedman
A trend in the last few years is the rising number of architecture and engineering firms and construction companies with technology-based subsidiaries or divisions.
This extends beyond the common tools used by architects,…
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Flexible solar cells beat 10,000 bending cycles with 96% efficiency
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) has developed a new material and fabrication process for flexible perovskite solar cells, enabling their production in ambient air conditions.
The work directly addresses the…
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How a $93M Project Will Protect the Delaware Memorial Bridge From Big Vessel Collisions
The twin spans of the Delaware Memorial Bridge will soon have an extra layer of protection from vessel collisions, such as the one that caused last year’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
Scheduled for completion in…
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Delaware Memorial Bridge Receiving Vessel Collision Protection
The twin spans of the Delaware Memorial Bridge will soon have an extra layer of protection from vessel collisions, such as the one that caused last year’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
Scheduled for completion in…
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Figure CEO teases video showing humanoid robot doing laundry
One of the perks of being the CEO of a robotics company is that you get to use the world’s largest technologies and show them off to potential consumers.
Figure AI’s CEO, Brett Adcock, recently took to X to share the company’s latest…
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UK engineers create solar shield that survive harsh space radiation
Engineers have created a “cosmic veil”—a special protective coating—designed to shield solar cells on satellites and spacecraft from the brutal radiation environment of space.
Developed at the University of Surrey, the coating has…
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Radioactive wasp nest found at old US nuclear bomb-making site
Nuclear bombs and radioactivity are a big threat to humanity, and in the United States, a new stage of fear has been unlocked with the discovery of a radioactive wasp nest.
The discovery has been made by workers at a site in South Carolina….
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