Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers
Vaclav Smil, writing at IEEE Spectrum: There is a fundamental difference between what can be designed and built and what makes sense. History provides a lesson in the shape of record-setting behemoths that have never since been equaled. The Egyptian.....»»
NASA"s Psyche mission enters home stretch before launch
Engineers and technicians at Cape Canaveral are preparing the Psyche spacecraft for liftoff, which is slated for Oct. 5......»»
New storage technology keeps nanosurfaces clean
Rice University engineers have created containers that can keep volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from accumulating on the surfaces of stored nanomaterials......»»
A solid-state quantum microscope that controls the wave functions of atomic quantum dots in silicon
Over the past decades, physicists and engineers have been trying to develop various technologies that leverage quantum mechanical effects, including quantum microscopes. These are microscopy tools that can be used to study the properties of quantum p.....»»
Tireless ecosystem engineers or nuisance animals? Beavers" presence felt in Boise River
Some of the trees along the Boise Greenbelt at the southeast end of the city are wrapped at their bases with chicken wire. These are not Christmas trees, and this ornamentation, strung by the city of Boise in conjunction with volunteer groups, is not.....»»
Engineers reveal the secrets behind green graphene
When Ange Nzihou, an expert in converting society's waste into valuable products, visited Princeton in 2022, he brought with him a technique to transform waste biomass into graphene, a material with many uses from batteries to solar cells. He knew hi.....»»
Elon Musk announces new AI start-up
The new entity is called xAI, and employs several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google......»»
Ex-VW CEO Winterkorn among executives ordered to testify in German investor suit
VW's main line of defense since the scandal broke in 2015 has been to blame a small group of engineers that it said colluded to rig the software and hid their tricks from company leadership......»»
Two new AI-based weather-forecasting systems challenging the status quo
Two teams of AI engineers have independently designed, built and tested two new AI-based weather-forecasting systems that have been found to be as accurate as existing systems......»»
How engineers on the ground fixed the Juice spacecraft’s stuck antenna
In April the Juice spacecraft launched to investigate the icy moons of Jupiter, but there was a problem: an antenna was stuck and wasn't deploying......»»
AI breakthroughs could come via the brains of bees, scientists say
A bee's brain may only be the size of a sesame seed, but scientists in the U.K. believe its decision-making processes could help AI engineers in their work......»»
AI breakthroughs could come via the brain of bees, scientists say
A bee's brain may only be the size of a sesame seed, but scientists in the U.K. believe its decision-making processes could help AI engineers in their work......»»
We"re Building Things Based on a Climate We No Longer Live In
NOAA precipitation estimates that engineers and planners use to design bridges, roads and other infrastructure are decades out of date because of climate change.....»»
Engineers develop first-of-its-kind integrated optical isolator
An optical isolator developed at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) could drastically improve optical systems for many practical applications......»»
Businesses count the cost of network downtime
Fewer than one in ten CIOs can claim that they have avoided a network outage, according to Opengear. This finding is among new research by Opengear of both CIOs and network engineers globally. The scale and frequency of network outages is revealed by.....»»
Neural wavefront shaping camera overcomes light scattering problem in optical imaging
Engineers from Rice University and the University of Maryland have created full-motion video technology that could potentially be used to make cameras that peer through fog, smoke, driving rain, murky water, skin, bone and other media that reflect sc.....»»
How Stellantis made its quality gains and keeps them going
After years of subpar showings, Stellantis' Dodge, Ram and Alfa Romeo brands topped J.D. Power's Initial Quality Study. Outgoing customer experience head David McDonald says factory engineers routinely visit dealerships, and each plant has a "control.....»»
Ford poised to begin next round of salaried job cuts
The automaker is cutting engineers in all three areas of its business, EVs, traditional internal combustion-engine models and commercial vehicles, said a company spokesman. The workers will be informed Tuesday and Wednesday......»»
LiveSurface is a fast and simple photorealistic mock-up generator by a former Apple designer
Designers can create realistic mock-ups in many ways, but these methods are not always simple or fast. What if you could just drop your artwork files into a scene or onto an object and quickly change colors, lighting, materials, and more – all in.....»»
New Relic APM 360 gives engineers a shared view of their application health
New Relic has launched New Relic APM 360, that goes beyond incident troubleshooting insights for select experts to daily performance, security & development insights for all engineers. APM 360 correlates all essential telemetry data across the applic.....»»
With transparent machine learning tool, engineers accelerate polymer discovery
Using the power of prediction, University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineers have quickly discovered several promising high-performance polymers out of a field of 8 million candidates......»»