Engineering (Page 10)

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A close-up of a Raspberry Pi computer circuit board.

How bits, bytes, ones, and zeros help a computer think

By Charlotte Hu

Joby’s latest electric air taxi will head to an Air Force base for tests in 2024

This company put a huge cell-tower-like satellite in space

This company put a huge cell-tower-like satellite in space

By Harry Guinness

Microsoft's quantum computing infrastructure

Microsoft sets its sights on a quantum supercomputer

By Charlotte Hu

Monarch butterfly during migration perched on leaf with wings spread out

Monarch butterflies’ signature color patterns could inspire better drone design

Why scientists want to banish barnacles from ship hulls

Why scientists want to banish barnacles from ship hulls

By Chris Baraniuk / Hakai Magazine

How GM is moving its autos into an accessible and inclusive future

How GM is moving its autos into an accessible and inclusive future

By Kristin Shaw

OceanGate Titan submersible side view in water

Why finding the missing Titanic-bound tourist submersible is so challenging

Tesla coil experiment to demonstrate how electricity works.

How does electricity work? Let’s demystify the life-changing physics.

cryostat infrastructure of a quantum computer

Quantum computers are starting to become more useful

By Charlotte Hu

The world’s first self-driving ferry is now in service

By Harry Guinness

inside of large airplane engine

The metallic guts of GE’s massive jet engines, in photos

By Christopher Payne, Rob Verger

humvees in Kuwait in 2005

The Pentagon wants to retrofit vehicles to drive themselves

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Agent Smith clones from The Matrix to show the concept of singularity in AI and AGI

What happens if AI grows smarter than humans? The answer worries scientists.

Spotted lanternfly adult on leaf

This lanternfly-egg-hunting robot could mean fewer bugs to squish

By Charlotte Hu

a tunnel in a sewer system

Taiwan sent mosquito-fighting robots into its sewers

By Charlotte Hu

a drone flies over the water

Watch a ‘flying fish’ drone hover in the air and then swim underwater

By Harry Guinness

Person underwater looking up at outer space to represent Blue Abyss training tank. Illustrated.

Inside Blue Abyss’ plan to build super-deep pools for astronauts and military bots

By Sarah Scoles

Look inside London’s new Super Sewer, an engineering marvel for rubbish and poo

Look inside London’s new Super Sewer, an engineering marvel for rubbish and poo

Air 4 All prototype wheelchair seat in airplane cabin

Prototype airline seat would make the skies friendlier to passengers in wheelchairs

Apple Vision Pro being worn by someone typing

Apple released a ‘spatial computer.’ Here’s what that means.

By Harry Guinness

Loxley Browne (right) CEO and founder of Club Athena in California with Akshaya Koramutla, the Student Advisory Board President.

This STEM club for girls turned a real BMW into a sweet racing simulator

By Kristin Shaw

Ephemeral exhibit at London Design Biennale

Bendy, eco-friendly wooden walls were inspired by guitar curves

Notre Dame de Paris cathedral on sunny day

Workers rely on medieval era tech to reconstruct the Notre Dame

Blue sine waves on a black background. Sine waves, like these, are a way to envision how sound works.

How do sound waves work?

By Brian S. Hawkins

the burj khalifa, the tallest building in the world in dubai

The tallest building in the world remains unchallenged—for now

Large termite mound in the African Savannah

Termite mounds may one day inspire ‘living, breathing’ architecture

Electric cars are better for the environment, no matter the power source

By Charlotte Hu

Concept art of water molecules passing through Air-gen material

A new material creates clean electricity from the air around it

The Air Force used microwave energy to take down a drone swarm

The Air Force used microwave energy to take down a drone swarm

By Kelsey D. Atherton

These massive, wing-like ‘sails’ could add wind power to cargo ships

These massive, wing-like ‘sails’ could add wind power to cargo ships

By Sara Kiley Watson

Wing's drone flying in the stadium

Watch a Google drone deliver beer and snacks to Denver’s Coors Field

By Harry Guinness

SuperBIT high-altitude balloon with space telescope in the skies after its launch

A super pressure balloon built by students is cruising Earth’s skies to find dark matter

The 2024 Toyota Tacoma

The new Tacoma’s shock-absorbing seats help you keep your eyes on the prize

By Kristin Shaw

Spy tech and rigged eggs help scientists study the secret lives of animals

By Charlotte Hu

A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan

‘Extended reality’ will help preserve some of Afghanistan’s most endangered historical sites

Close-up of children's diapers stacked in a piles

Dirty diapers could be recycled into cheap, sturdy concrete

Sun setting behind an high voltage power line transformer

This summer could push US energy grids to their limits

Wendy's chain restaurant at night.

Wendy’s wants underground robots to deliver food to your car

By Harry Guinness

Navy SEALs will finally stay dry in a cozy new submarine

Navy SEALs will finally stay dry in a cozy new submarine

By Kelsey D. Atherton

McLaren's F1 race car

An inside look at the data powering McLaren’s F1 team

By Charlotte Hu

A Labrador retriever smelling for explosives with a member of a bomb squad at the trial of the 2015 Boston Marathon bomber

No machine can beat a dog’s bomb-detecting sniffer

Illustration of a submarine communications cable.

Why the EU wants to build an underwater cable in the Black Sea

By Charlotte Hu

How an innovative battery system in the Bronx will help charge up NYC’s grid

How an innovative battery system in the Bronx will help charge up NYC’s grid

What happened to Google Glass?

All the products that Google has sent to the graveyard

By Harry Guinness

This soft robotic skull implant could change epilepsy treatment

This soft robotic skull implant could change epilepsy treatment

By Sara Kiley Watson

A new mask adds ‘realistic’ smells to VR

A new mask adds ‘realistic’ smells to VR

By Sara Kiley Watson

centipede robot

To build a better crawly robot, add legs—lots of legs

By Charlotte Hu

A rendering of Proteus.

An ambitious underwater ‘space station’ just got a major research collaborator

By Charlotte Hu

Australia wants a laser weapon powerful enough to stop a tank

Australia wants a laser weapon powerful enough to stop a tank

By Kelsey D. Atherton

John Deere farm equipment

How John Deere’s tech evolved from 19th-century plows to AI and autonomy

By Kristin Shaw

shock waves from supersonic jet

How fast is supersonic flight, and why does it create sonic booms?

Two seals laying on shore near water.

Seals provided inspiration for a new waddling robot

airplanes at different gates in an airport

How a quantum computer tackles a surprisingly difficult airport problem

By Charlotte Hu

NASA Ingenuity helicopter lost in a Mars crater in a photo taken by Perseverance rover

Name a better duo than NASA’s hard-working Mars rover and helicopter

By Briley Lewis

tsunami warning sign in Israel

New AI-based tsunami warning software could help save lives

By Jamie Helmick

a computer chip from Intel

Cloud computing has its security weaknesses. Intel’s new chips could make it safer.

By Harry Guinness

northern lights over the Arctic ocean

Arctic researchers built a ‘Fish Disco’ to study ocean life in darkness

By Charlotte Hu

Ancient Maya idol in Copán, Guatemala

Ancient Maya masons had a smart way to make plaster stronger

This robot dog learned a new trick—balancing like a cat

This robot dog learned a new trick—balancing like a cat

By Sara Kiley Watson

A xenobot, or a living robot, in culture, under a microscope.

Meet xenobots, tiny machines made out of living parts

By Charlotte Hu

A new kind of Kevlar aims to stop bullets with less material

A new kind of Kevlar aims to stop bullets with less material

Satellite image of the powerful eruption.

How the Tonga eruption rang Earth ‘like a bell’

Seagreen's offshore windfarm in Scotland

At 441,000 pounds and 192 feet underwater, this is the world’s deepest wind turbine

By Harry Guinness