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Countless engineering solutions are hiding in plain sight. We just have to look more closely at the natural world.
Pearl Young, second from left, at the NACA’s Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1927.
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Many of her male colleagues believed Pearl Young had an attitude problem based on her efforts to advocate for herself and her team.
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Building an inclusive STEM workforce requires a long-term commitment from individuals, industry and the government.
Black students remain significantly underrepresented in engineering.
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Universities have made little progress diversifying STEM fields in recent years.
Green pump for diesel, blue for gas – but what’s the difference?
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Both gasoline and diesel fuel are refined from crude oil, but they are good for different things and can’t be used interchangeably.
Engineering solutions for more inclusive hockey for people with disabilities can pertain to both equipment and processes surrounding how players engage with and play the game.
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Design thinking involves challenging assumptions and redefining problems to identify alternative strategies and solutions that might not be immediately apparent.
Careers in the maritime industry can take graduates all over the world.
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For those drawn both to engineering and a seafaring life, marine engineering and nautical science are ideal careers.
Air pollution is a global problem, but scientists are investigating new materials that could help clean it up.
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Some materials react and generate potentially helpful particles when exposed to light. Analytical AI can help scientists sort through materials to find ones with this property.
Engineering students from underrepresented groups often feel isolated and ultimately switch majors.
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Researchers asked engineering students to tell stories about challenges they had faced. Telling the stories, students said, made them more likely to stay in their major.
Early exposure to scientific concepts has many benefits for kids.
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When children engage with STEM concepts their visual literacy and conceptual understanding of scientific concepts are strengthened.
When highways buckle, the damage can happen quickly, putting drivers in danger and tying up traffic.
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A civil engineer explains why roadways and rails warp and crack in the heat − and points to some innovative ways to keep the US transportation system healthy as long as possible.
Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider.
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The LHC is back in business for the year, but getting it ready to collect data isn’t always a straightforward process. You can’t just unplug it and plug it in again.
The Orion capsule from NASA’s Artemis I mission splashes down.
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Safely landing a spacecraft that’s falling from the sky very quickly is easier said than done.
A schematic shows a perovskite solar cell being irradiated with a damaging (red) and a healing (green) proton beam.
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Spacecraft exteriors that automatically heal from radiation damage would change the game − one material shows promise.
The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th birthday.
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Hubble’s technical issues continue. But through some clever engineering, the telescope can continue operations with just 1 gyroscope.
Construction underway at China’s Lingdingyang Bridge.
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Underwater construction is a complex and difficult task, but engineers have developed several ways to build underwater … mostly by not building underwater at all.
Studying pregnancy from multiple disciplines could provide new insights.
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How and why preterm birth happens is still unclear, in part because research on pregnancy tends to focus on developmental biology.
Protein wave oscillations open a window into living cells.
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Researchers can create ‘single-cell radios’ using bacterial proteins to transmit the invisible activities within cells.
The physics of how ions flow in supercapacitors required an update.
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To model the inside of a supercapacitor, my team had to rework a common physics law that most high school students learn.
Finding ethics’ place in the engineering curriculum.
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Ethics is often neglected in engineering education, two researchers write, despite mounting questions about how to responsibly design artificial intelligence programs.