Engineering

Magazine articles on engineering and how things work.

Old Articles: <Older 3521-3530 Newer>

IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Mark Anderson	Digital Music Renaissance Dick Burwen's algorithms may bring back analog's rich, complex sounds
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Susan Karlin	Game Design: Sometimes It Is Rocket Science Sony executive John Blakely's prior career as a space engineer is more useful than you'd imagine
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Paul Wallich	The Lightbulb That Really Is a Better Idea LED bulbs change the lighting equation
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 S. Massoud Amin	U.S. Electrical Grid Gets Less Reliable Since 1995, outages have steadily increased as R&D steadily declined
The Motley Fool December 28, 2010 Wolfgang Gruener	25 Historic Technology Predictions A look back at some of the worst tech-related calls ever.
The Motley Fool December 26, 2010 Gabriel Perna	Best of Microsoft Kinect Hacks There are a lot of possibilities if you look under the hood.
Chemistry World December 20, 2010 Jennifer Newton	Frozen assets in biobanks Scientists from Sweden have devised a technique that extracts both DNA and RNA from frozen tissue in a bid to improve large-scale extractions from samples stored in biobanks, which could aid cancer research.
Chemistry World December 14, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Speeding up electrons in solar cells Swiss and Chinese scientists have developed a new way of making the porous TiO2 electrode for solid state dye-sensitised solar cells.
National Defense January 2011 Grace V. Jean	Beam Me Up Some Power To give the remotely operated planes better endurance in the skies, scientists are developing battlefield lasers to recharge the batteries in flight.
National Defense January 2011 Eric Beidel	Robots Become Nuclear Site's 'Junkyard Dogs' The new security guard at a famous nuclear testing site north of Las Vegas may lack heart, but it has enough brainpower to keep intruders away from government secrets buried on the property.
<Older 3521-3530 Newer> Return to current articles.