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Student Invents Walking Chair
A product-design student in Derby, England, has invented a wheelchair alternative he hopes will give people with mobility issues more freedom, the BBC reported. Martin Harris, 21, noted that current...
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Engineering Breakthrough Could Double Wireless Capacity
Melissa Duarte, a Rice University graduate student, with a “full-duplex” prototype Engineers at Rice University have accomplished a feat that should bring happiness to all smart-phone users:...
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Fasten Your Seat Belts
New spacecraft may soon be fulfilling tourists’ astronautical dreams. Want to indulge your inner Buzz Lightyear? You soon may have that chance. Space tourism, once an idea confined to science...
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It’s Here! The 5th Edition of Engineering, Go For It
Like our new magazine cover? Snatch up the 44″ x 25″ poster What do the blockbuster movie Avatar, high-performance sports gear, the Angry Birds phone app, and pollution-eating bacteria have in common?...
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Best of 2011: Our Top Stories
2011 was another busy year for engineers all over the world. From inventing a device that turns air into water to exploring the oceans in a tiny submarine, scientists and engineers are exploring...
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Power Up on the Floor
Anyone who’s ever worked up a sweat running for the school bus knows it takes energy to move. Now, a young inventor in England has come up with a way to capture the ambient kinetic energy of...
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Bye, Bye Blues?
Millions of people – up to 25 percent of those living in nontropical regions – get the blues during winter. Current treatment for seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, requires shining a light in the...
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Imagine Cup Winners Solve World’s Woes
Searching for the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Look around your classroom. Or rather, check out Sydney, Australia, where science, technology, engineering, and math students from every continent...
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Olympic Engineering
There’s no Olympic medal for sports engineering. But breakthrough technology is playing a star role at the London games – if you know where to look. Take swimming. The London Aquatics Center, where...
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NASA Explores Brazuca’s Aerodynamics
Click here to view the embedded video. Count NASA engineers among the soccer fans following the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament in Brazil this summer. They’re not only students of “the beautiful game”...
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