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For every 0.1°C rise in temperature, the number of sinkholes increases by 1 to 3%.
Ice can be a wind turbine’s worst enemy.
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Wind turbines in cold areas typically include methods for removing and repelling ice, but those methods can waste energy. There’s a better way.
Starship prototype test fight.
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Starship’s groundbreaking design will help it land safely on Mars one day.
Infrared sensors make it possible to measure a person’s body temperature without touching the person’s body.
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Sensors are everywhere, from your phone to your medicine cabinet. Here’s how they turn events in the physical world into words and numbers.
These beautiful curves hold the key to a simple way to vary the stiffness of robotic grippers.
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Curved origami isn’t just elegant art. It’s also a versatile way to vary the amount of force applied by robots and other machines.
Light is key to ultrasensitive chemical sensors.
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An optical sensor that can detect individual molecules promises early detection of diseases and environmental contamination.
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Hyperloop might still be a dream but new technologies promise to make trains faster and safer.
Researchers take a closer look at how activities that engage the whole family can help young distance learners build STEM skills.
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A new hands-on learning program helps families with young children build their engineering skills.
Creating a digital twin of infrastructure or services makes them easier to monitor and operate safely.
The oil and gas sector has transformed Newfoundland and Labrador over the past few decades.
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Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil and gas industry is the province’s largest contributor to the economy and will be critically important to its future.
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In under 10 days, engineers from UCL and Mercedes F1 reverse-engineered a product, produced a new design, tested it, got regulatory approval and started production.
Ventilators being made by British medical supply firm OES.
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It’s not as simple as churning out more products, though that’s a good starting point.
The City of London is in lockdown.
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Engineers may be able to develop new ways of opening doors or better and mass-produced face masks for the elderly.
You can’t make a guitar without some STEM know-how.
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More than 20,000 American high school students have made their own guitars in school over the past decade. Many of them have wound up more into learning about STEM disciplines.
Squeaky Cheese Rattery.
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The Euler spiral has helped engineers for over 100 years – now we’re using it to understand biology.
Individuals working together as one.
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A swarm of honeybees can provide valuable lessons about how a group of many individuals can work together to accomplish a task, even with no one in charge. Roboticists are taking notes.
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Rackets have come a long way since the first tennis tournaments.
Only a small fraction of engineers are women.
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Building a strong ‘engineering identity’ is a key step towards bringing more women into the field, a new report has found.
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‘Use the reinforced concrete, Luke.’
Engineering programs can learn about recruitment, inclusion and retention from different fields.
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On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique. Women in a mechanical engineering class were targeted, and 30 years later the ratio of women to men in engineering hasn’t improved much.