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Stanford Engineers Create Artificial “Skin” to Allow Prosthetics to Feel
Stanford engineers have created a plastic "skin" that can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver this...
Microsoft Invests $75Mil to Encourage Aspiring Engineers in High School
Public school computer science is getting expensive. Fortunately, this tech giant has promised to help sponsor a new generation of engineers.
Microsoft has announced plans...
The Feminine Reason for African Girls Dropping Out, and An Engineer’s Simple Solution
Many girls in the Western world use their period as an excuse to sit out of gym class–but in some African countries a girl’s...
Ex-NASA Engineer to Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drones
A start-up plans to help solve the world’s climate problems by using drones to plant forests of seedlings.
“We are going to counter industrial scale...
Engineers Are FUN! Watch This Video and Believe Your Eyes
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The civil engineers behind some of London’s most iconic infrastructure projects have put on their dancing shoes to show the public how happy...
New Billboard That Cleans Up Air Pollution Engineered By Same Peruvians Who Made One to Provide Water to Parched Neighbors
The University of Engineering and Technology of Peru has wowed us again. Their first billboard, shown here, provides drinking water to a parched and arid...
Engineering Students Design Robotic Arm for Teen With Brittle Bones
It was a big day for Dee Faught when a team of Rice University students gave him a helping hand. In fact, they gave...
Clever Engineering and Simple Balloons Save Drivers Gas and Time
South Korean petroleum company, S-Oil wanted to show that it valued resource conservation in the nation's capital, Seoul, where gasoline consumption is the highest...
Born Without Arms, NASCAR Auto Engineer Always Does What People Say He Can’t
NASCAR's top racing company, Hendrick Motorsports, gave engineer Richie Parker a shot with a 10-week internship, mostly because of his can-do attitude. Born without...
Peru Passes 10-Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods
Despite pressure from multinational agri-business corporations such as Monsanto, the Peruvian Environment Minister announced this week that the government has approved a new regulation...
Student Engineering Project Helps Girl Feed Herself
For their their senior project, six Marquette University engineering students chose to design and manufacture a device that would help a physically-challenged 11-year-old girl...
Indian Engineering Students Light Up Rural Homes With Solar
At a time when many States are facing a power crisis in India, a group of electrical engineering students have taken up an initiative...
World’s Lightest Material Unveiled by US Engineers
A team of engineers claims to have created the world's lightest material. The substance, 100 times lighter than Styrofoam with "extraordinarily high energy absorption"...
Ex-radio Engineer for Gaddafi Regime Uses Newfound Freedom to Transmit Messages of Hope & Change
When the Libyan city of Benghazi fell into the hands of the opposition a week ago, Saleh Zayani grabbed two sound mixers and a...
Supreme Court Favors Consumers in First-Ever Case on Genetically-Engineered Crops
The United States Supreme Court announced its decision Monday in Monsanto v. Geerston Farms, the first genetically modified crop case ever brought before the...
Young Engineer Launches Stair Aid at 16
A young engineer set up the StairSteady company when she was only 16 to market her innovative idea, a simple device to assist people...
Engineers Without Borders “Beat the Crap Out of Poverty”
This week, Engineers Without Borders held its third annual Beat the Crap Out of Poverty event at Memorial University. For a small...
‘Hello, Voyager!’ Celebrated Spacecraft Is Once Again Transmitting After Nasa Repair from 15 Billion Miles Away
Last November, one of NASA's most famous craft, Voyager 1, stopped transmitting messages to the great anxiety of those responsible for receiving them.
It wasn't...
Fungus Devastating Frogs Worldwide May Have an Achilles Heel – And it May Save the Amphibians
A pandemic among frogs has been going on worldwide for years—the culprit: a fungal infection that has affected amphibians on nearly every continent.
But now,...
Cancer Breakthrough Found to Boost Immune Cells Without Harmful Side-Effects By Directing Protein Cytokines
A new way to safely boost immune cells to fight cancer—avoiding harmful side-effects such as hair loss—has been developed.
Scientists at Virginia Tech devised the...