Engineering (Page 9)

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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

Pin-tailed sandgrouse in a body of water

How a dumpy, short-legged bird could change water bottle designs

By Charlotte Hu

Strait between Sicily and Italy, view from Messina, Sicily

After 2,000 years of debate, Italy’s massive suspension bridge to Sicily may finally happen

Ocean waves crashing on rocky shoreline on cloudy day.

Pendulums under ocean waves could prevent beach erosion

Key components of shake testing structure being installed.

Can this 10-story wooden building survive a seismic shakedown?

By Colleen Hagerty

Google Sycamore processor for quantum computer hanging from a server room with gold and blue wires

Quantum computers can’t teleport things—yet

Artemis II astronauts in orange NASA and Canadian Space Agency spacesuits

Meet the first 4 astronauts of the ‘Artemis Generation’

By Purbita Saha

The new Lamborghini Revuelto is a powerful hybrid beast

The new Lamborghini Revuelto is a powerful hybrid beast

Complete collapse of tall apartment building after Turkey Syria earthquake. Seen from aerial view.

Why most countries don’t have enough earthquake-resilient buildings

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore laughing in 2015 during 50th anniversary of Moore's Law

Gordon Moore, modern computing pioneer, dies at 94

plant leaf up close

Tiny, fast lasers are unlocking the mysteries of photosynthesis

By Charlotte Hu

Superconductor cuprate rings lit up in blue and green on a black grid

Room-temperature superconductors could zap us into the future

Upper portion of Relativity Space's 3D printed Terran rocket at night prior to launch

The first 3D printed rocket launch was both a failure and a success

The secret to Voyagers’ spectacular space odyssey

The secret to Voyagers’ spectacular space odyssey

By Tatyana Woodall

the nissan ariya

The tricky search for just the right amount of automation in our cars

By Kristin Shaw

Two hands holding pile of potatoes

Our homes on Mars could be made from potato-based ‘StarCrete’

paper airplanes

Engineers created a paper plane-throwing bot to learn more about flight

By Charlotte Hu

Rockets firing from the ground into a black sky with moons and flames. Illustrated.

These 3D printed engines can power space-bound rockets—or hypersonic weapons

By Sarah Scoles

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

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