Water Bottles to Illuminate a Million Homes
In Manila, the capital of the Philippines, lack of electricity keeps millions of the city’s poorer inhabitants in the dark. Metal rooftops on the city’s slum houses also block natural daylight, but...
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The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program is an opportunity for students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Science, Technology,...
View ArticleThe World’s Sweetest Printer
Researchers at Britain’s University of Exeter have developed a 3-D printer that Willy Wonka would die for. Instead of using metals or plastics as its “ink,” Exeter’s uses chocolate. Sometimes called...
View ArticleAnd Now: Flavor-Shifting Ice Cream
Liz Fenner with cherry-flavored microcapsules used to add a kick to vanilla ice cream Ever felt paralyzed by the choice between two equally delicious ice cream flavors? Fear not – Elizabeth Fenner, a...
View ArticleIt’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?...
View ArticleBest 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...
View ArticleHigh-tech Fibers
What do Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga have in common with engineering? All belt out chart-topping singles in a costume tailor-made for a techno beat and larger-than-life image: an LED dress. Such...
View ArticleScience Fair Dream Comes True
There are garage start-ups and then there’s the wood-shop-turned-invention-factory in the garage where Jack Andraka, 15, dreamed up a prize-winning science fair project that could change how cancer is...
View ArticleEngineering Scholarships: A Giant List
Scholarships that target students interested in engineering provide an excellent way to help pay for the rising costs of higher education. Since engineering scholarships are plentiful and come from a...
View ArticleSmart Jammies
Each year, sudden infant death syndrome, or crib death, claims the lives of around 2,225 U.S. children from birth to 12 months. But German researchers have developed a stretchable, printed circuit...
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