Category: Engineering

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a powerful new algorithm that enables the design of reconfigurable metastructures with tunable stiffness and six degrees of freedom (DoF).

This breakthrough allows designers to…

In a world first, two spacecraft aligned into a formation in orbit with millimeter precision and maintained their relative position for hours without human intervention.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 mission performed the…

British World War II veteran Ken Turner, who is 98 years old, drove a restored Sherman tank over a Tesla Model 3 in a planned political protest in rural England.

The demonstration, staged by the activist group Led By Donkeys, was designed as…

Researchers in France and Spain have designed a groundbreaking cement-like material that not only supports structural loads but also functions as a rechargeable battery.

The team consisting of scientists from the University of Bordeaux and…

Consumer technology today relies primarily on batteries to fulfill energy needs.

Conventional batteries use chemical reactions to store energy, offering high energy density, which is to say that they provide long run times for our devices….

Most people typically get between seven to nine hours of sleep each night. Now, science says some people could thrive on just four hours of sleep, feeling completely rested and ready to go. 

It sounds like a superpower, and for a lucky few,…

The Ontario government in Canada has given the green light for Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to commence construction on the first Small Modular Reactor (SMR) in the G7 at its Darlington nuclear site. 

This pioneering BWRX-300 reactor is…

Ever imagined your cat speaking what she wants or needs? It’d make your lives so much easier. China’s tech giant Baidu is apparently working on developing an AI system that allows humans to decipher the meaning behind a cat’s…

The first time Davis DeWitt saw the character concept for Newt, he may have thought of Wall-E. But unlike Pixar’s animated robot, Newt is real—and ready for the big screen. This functional robot was designed and built entirely from scratch…