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Engineered Bacteria Uses Sunlight to Turn CO2 Emissions into Methane
Scientists have engineered a bacterium that can take carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuel in a single enzymatic step.
The process...
This Doctor Broke The Law To Engineer a Better Nursing Home, And the Death Rate Plummeted
Even though we are living in an age where growing old is thought of as an inevitable misery, this doctor has been changing the...
Notre Dame Students Engineering Dignity for Lightning Strike Victim
Katelyn Toth and her stepbrother were riding a paddleboat on a small lake near Bremen, Indiana, in 2006 when a storm whipped out of...
30 Years After Shuttle Disaster, Engineer’s Guilt Eased by Flood of Letters
It was a heartbreaking story that launched a heart warming response from hundreds of people – helping turn around an elderly man's 30-year battle...
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...