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Powder To The People: This 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And...
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a...
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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown
Boston has a long history of medical breakthroughs going all the way back to Onesimus, an African slave who introduced Cotton Mather to inoculation during a smallpox epidemic in 1721. This was seven...
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Love At First Touch: Brazilian Doctor Uses 3D Printing To Help Blind Parents...
When Ana Paula Silveira got pregnant, she and her husband, Alvaro Zermiani, dreamed about seeing the face of their child during her first ultrasound exam. But weeks later, they got to feel it...
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5 Ways Designers And Engineers Can Start Designing For Climate Change
All over the world these days, sustainable design is good design — from China’s tallest tower to the Bellagio Hotel fountains. Designers and engineers who are addressing climate change and aiming for...
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Powder To The People: This 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And...
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a...
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From The Keystone State To Karachi: These U.S Locomotives Will Help Drive...
Erie, Pennsylvania, is 7,000 miles and a world away from Karachi, Pakistan. Seated on the south side of Lake Erie, the Pennsylvania town is green and full of historic brick homes. Karachi is a bustling...
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Global Is Local: The Future Of Manufacturing
Let’s change the way we talk about manufacturing.Too often, the discussion is about how old-line industry is struggling to survive in a world of bold new tech. In reality, digital and additive...
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School’s In: GE’s New “Brilliant Learning” Program Will Train Workers For...
Jesse Schrimpf didn’t study additive manufacturing in school. But when a 3D printer showed up at his plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the GE Healthcare engineer decided to give the machine a whirl. One of...
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Small Wonders: 3D-Printing ‘Microfactories’ Are Coming To Abu-Dhabi, Dubai
“Micro” isn’t a word that comes to mind when people talk about the United Arab Emirates, the home of the world’s tallest building, the largest man-made island and other grand attractions. But it points...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A paralyzed man used a brain chip to move his arm, a supercomputer is getting good at spotting depression, and scientists found a way to make fast-growing cancer self-destruct. Read on and finish the...
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Bringing Good Things To Night: How Night Baseball Came To Cincinnati In 1935
At precisely 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 24, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a Western Union telegraph key in the White House and an electric pulse traveled 500 miles over telegraph wires to...
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This Object Has Been Sprayed With The World’s Blackest Material, And It’s...
Seriously, that’s not Photoshopped. Well, we’ve finally cracked it. Scientists have finally figured out how to paint a portal to another dimension, as prophesied by Loony Tunes’ the Roadrunner. Who...
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The End Of The Waiting Room?
How telemedicine is set to change the healthcare industry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that increased rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes...
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Small Wonders: 3D-Printing ‘Microfactories’ Are Coming To Abu-Dhabi, Dubai
“Micro” isn’t a word that comes to mind when people talk about the United Arab Emirates, the home of the world’s tallest building, the largest man-made island and other grand attractions. But it points...
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The Pioneer: Mary Reynolds Helped Raise A Generation Of Engineers
Mary Reynolds stood on the train platform and waved her parents goodbye. It was 1946, and the 20-year-old was trading the red dirt of Oklahoma for the frigid winters of Schenectady, New York, and an...
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On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter
Outside of the Island of Sodor, where Thomas the Tank Engine and his magical friends live, trains don’t usually speak. That’s about to change in Europe, where locomotives are set to start talking to...
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This Idea Holds Water: A Rural Montana Town Is About To Make A Splash In...
The town of Martinsdale in central Montana is a sleepy enclave of unpaved streets lined with a handful of homes and businesses. Once a stop on a busy Chicago-to-Seattle railroad, the place fell quiet...
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Computers Can Now Read Your Emotions. Here’s Why That’s Not As Scary As It...
Hyper-connected systems, like smart devices, come with advanced artificial intelligence. But that’s a lot of IQ, not EQ. That’s where “Emotion AI” fills the void, writes Affectiva CEO and co-founder...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Norwegian engineers are planning to build the world’s first shipping tunnel to ease passage through treacherous seas, their Australian colleagues came up with an energy storage design inspired by fern...
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Octopus And Squid Evolution Is Officially Weirder Than We Could Have Ever...
They edit their own genes! Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the...
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