Engineering(Page 9)

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PEP Buddy breathing aid on lanyard for COPD patietns

A $25 whistle-like tool could be a game changer for COPD patients

Butterfly cutouts painted with plasmonic paint hues against grass background

Butterfly-inspired ‘plasmonic paint’ could be brilliant for energy-efficient buildings

Underwater image of sunken ship, Ironton, in Lake Huron

Get a high-tech tour of the long-lost Ironton shipwreck discovered in the Great Lakes

Beech mushrooms growing on a substrate against a gold background

How to use the power of mushrooms to improve your life

By Julia Craven

How concept cars hint at a dazzling automotive future

By Kristin Shaw

electrodes hooked up to mushrooms

Inside the lab that’s growing mushroom computers

By Charlotte Hu

A vocal amplification patch could help stroke patients and first responders

A vocal amplification patch could help stroke patients and first responders

google's quantum processor

How Google plans to fix quantum computing’s accuracy problem

By Harry Guinness

Close up of person wearing vocal strain monitor and haptic wrist device

A smartly trained voice monitor could save singers, teachers, and loud talkers from strain

An architecture mockup of the Hunter's Point South Park.

The ability for cities to survive depends on smart, sustainable architecture

By Charlotte Hu

Why some Toyotas have ‘fish fins’

Why some Toyotas have ‘fish fins’

By Kristin Shaw

The Icefin robot under the sea ice.

A torpedo-like robot named Icefin is giving us the full tour of the ‘Doomsday’ glacier

By Charlotte Hu

An illustration of a circuit in the form of a human brain.

Engineers finally peeked inside a deep neural network

NASA evolved structure spacecraft part

NASA is using AI to help design lighter parts

a cuttlefish in darkness

Cuttlefish have amazing eyes, so robot-makers are copying them

By Charlotte Hu

three MysteryVibe products

These sex toys are designed to heal, one orgasm at a time

By Charlie Surbey, Sandra Gutierrez G.

A prototype of QuEra's neutral atom quantum computer.

How neutral atoms could help power next-gen quantum computers

By Charlotte Hu

In the latest State of the Union, Biden highlights infrastructure, chips, and healthcare

In the latest State of the Union, Biden highlights infrastructure, chips, and healthcare

By Laura Baisas

Honda’s newest Accord hybrid is a sleek, brawny beast

Honda’s newest Accord hybrid is a sleek, brawny beast

By Kristin Shaw

ancient-style illustration of poseidon and workers building seawall

Inside the project to bring ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete to American shorelines

A new artificial skin could be more sensitive than the real thing

By Charlotte Hu

NASA aims to fly its experimental electric plane this year

NASA aims to fly its experimental electric plane this year

Lego man liquid-metal model standing in mock jail cell

Watch this metallic material move like the T-1000 from ‘Terminator 2’

From film to forensics, here’s how lidar laser systems are helping us visualize the world

By Charlotte Hu

drone on branch

It’s not a UFO—this drone is scooping animal DNA from the tops of trees

By Charlotte Hu

A night vision view of a C-17 pilot in the airplane's cockpit.

The illuminating tech inside night vision goggles, explained

high rise buildings in new york

This startup plans to collect carbon pollution from buildings before it’s emitted

By Charlotte Hu

Will ‘flying cars’ cause traffic jams in the sky?

Will ‘flying cars’ cause traffic jams in the sky?

By Andrew Zaleski

an aerial view of an intersection

What can ‘smart intersections’ do for a city? Chattanooga aims to find out.

15 rocket launches from SpaceX, NASA, Blue Origin, and more in a collage

Rocket fuel might be polluting the Earth’s upper atmosphere

One of Ford's battery modules

Ford used a quantum computer to explore EV battery materials

By Harry Guinness

the surface of the moon revealing beautiful craters

This map-making AI could be the first step towards GPS on the moon

By Tatyana Woodall

Macro photo of a silkworm eating a mulberry leaf

Silkworm-inspired weaving techniques can produce better nanofibers

LUMI supercomputer

Why European researchers hooked up a quantum machine to a supercomputer

By Harry Guinness

Three Tmsuk spider robots meant for sewer system inspections and repairs

Spider robots could soon be swarming Japan’s aging sewer systems

Magnetic microrobots could zap the bacteria out of your cold glass of milk

By Charlotte Hu

the B-21 raider bomber

Our first look at the Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber was just a careful teaser

The most ingenious engineering feats of 2022

The most ingenious engineering feats of 2022

By Andrew Rosenblum

A representative of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Logistics Science and Technology briefs distinguished visitors on the Atmospheric Portable-water Sustainment Unit and Lightweight Water Purification System at Marine Corps Base Hawaii,

This device will allow the marines to make drinking water from thin air

By Kelsey D. Atherton

A jellyfish-like sea creature that's classified as a siphonophore

What this jellyfish-like sea creature can teach us about underwater vehicles of the future

By Charlotte Hu

6 architectural facts about history’s tallest buildings

6 architectural facts about history’s tallest buildings

By John Kennedy

people walking in front of clock

The leap second’s time will be up in 2035—and tech companies are thrilled

By Harry Guinness

sheet music on piano

How Spotify trained an AI to transcribe music

By Charlotte Hu

gray puffy clouds cover the sky

The ocean’s iodine helps create clouds, but high levels burn through the ozone layer

By Tatyana Woodall

Invinity's power system installed in Scotland

‘Workhorse of batteries’ could give California tribe’s new clean-energy microgrid a jolt

By Colleen Hagerty

a timelapse of batteries discharging and transforming from yellow to dark red in the process

How a design tweak could help pacemaker batteries last longer

By Helen Bradshaw

new flex wiring in the cryogenic quantum computer infrastructure

IBM’s biggest quantum chip yet could help solve the trickiest math problems

By Charlotte Hu

How drones are helping monitor Kyrgyzstan’s radioactive legacy

How drones are helping monitor Kyrgyzstan’s radioactive legacy

By Kelsey D. Atherton

a stage filled with lights and music equipment

This AI can harness sound to reveal the structure of unseen spaces

By Charlotte Hu

Inside the ambitious project to turn a 1961 Volvo into a powerful modern hybrid

Inside the ambitious project to turn a 1961 Volvo into a powerful modern hybrid

By Kristin Shaw

Empty parking lot underneath blue sky with clouds

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is being demolished for more SpaceX parking spots

A drone made out of sticks? In the UAV space, anything flies.

By Kelsey D. Atherton

A new silicone tire sealant stops nails in their tracks

A new silicone tire sealant stops nails in their tracks

By Kristin Shaw

Swiss train crossing bridge in Alps

Switzerland sets world record for longest passenger train—and it’s electric

a star wars action figure

How I turned myself into a Star Wars action figure

By Chelsey B. Coombs

Lunar surface with stars in the sky

NASA could build a future lunar base from 3D-printed moon-dust bricks

battery equipment

Scientists are getting energized about a massive battery ‘genome’ project

Harvard robotic arm with tentacle filaments gripping succulent plant

This spooky robot uses inflatable tentacles to grab delicate items

Roofgarden in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Pumping carbon dioxide waste to rooftop gardens boosts crop yields

brain cells on a multi-electrode array

What Pong-playing brain cells can teach us about better medicine and AI

By Charlotte Hu

Medium-sized shark swimming through dark waters

Shark skin is nearly impossible to engineer. A 3D look shows why.

By Marina Wang / Hakai Magazine

ibm diamondback tape storage library

Why a tech giant is embracing old-school magnetic tape storage

By Charlotte Hu

illustrations of a person being teleported in a 1960s style

Could quantum physics unlock teleportation?

By Bill Gourgey

brilliant-10-2022

The Brilliant 10: The top up-and-coming minds in science

By Mara Grunbaum, Yasmin Tayag