Articles tagged "engineering"

With three months of review and battery carriage fixes, Boeing's airplane of the future will soon return to the skies.

The future won't be decided by how many tanks we've got, but by how smart our programmers are.

The vast majority of technological progress effects our above-ground environs. Which makes sense, because that's where we live. And the great bulk of tech innovation these days is a mad dash to improve our relationship with the environment we routine…

When it opened 129 years ago today, the Brooklyn Bridge was the answer to a geographical problem that should be familiar to any youngster living in New York today: the affordable housing was in Brooklyn, but the jobs were in Manhattan. And the answer…

When I was a kid, my friends and I used to spend hours inventing and constructing different paper airplane models in my basement during sleepovers. Sometimes we brought along the latest "book of templates":http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_sc_1?rh=i%3As…

When you spend six months and 5,000 hours perfecting a "300-step, Guinness Record-breaking Rube Goldberg contraption":http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/general/2012/120331RubeNational.html, it's gotta be a bummer to come in second place to some wimpy-as…

Here's some irony for a Wednesday. Shaundra Daily is an education engineer whose alleged "lack of emotion" motivates her to develop new technologies that help kids better understand their own emotions. She also holds a secret talent. Want a hint? She…