Category: Engineering

NOAA explorers have uncovered an unexpected relic during a recent dive to the wreck of the USS Yorktown which they believe is a possible personal Ford vehicle belonging to one of the most important US commanders of World War II.

Aircraft…

Shanghai Jiao Tong University has just solved one of the oldest telecom headaches. The faster you fling information down a light beam, the harder it is to keep it secret. In lab and field tests reported this week in National Science Review, a…

New research from Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute shows that low-intensity electrical pulse therapy could help prepare the tumor environment for the immune system to work better.

This therapy has not received as much…

One of the world’s most extreme airports, Norway’s Svalbard Airport, is at risk of disappearing.

The world’s northernmost airport with scheduled commercial flights, Svalbard, is located atop a thick permafrost layer by the settlement of…

A US-based startup focused on recycling coal ash, reducing cement emissions, and decarbonizing the concrete industry has given coal ash a surprising second life by helping decarbonize concrete, one of the world’s dirtiest building materials….

To reduce the cost of feeding astronauts in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) just launched a lab into space in a significant first step in manufacturing food in space, a new frontier.

Feeding an astronaut can cost close to 27,000 US…

Scientists have developed a new class of organic photothermal cocrystals that significantly boost the efficiency of solar thermoelectric generators (STEGs), paving the way for smarter wearable electronics, next-gen energy devices, and…

Flying squirrels’ speed, agility, and aerial skills have now inspired a breakthrough in drone technology.

Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea have developed a highly maneuverable drone modeled…

Quantum mechanics governs the world of fundamental particles, where we can see a variety of quantum phenomena that emerge due to the collective behavior of particles like electrons.

These exotic quantum states are unusual, behaving…