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Engineering: is the application of knowledge, ideally in the form of science, mathematics, and empirical evidence, to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.
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OCT 22, 2015Videos
Chris Hadfield is a man of many talents. Not only was he a Royal Air Force pilot and engineer, he also flew on two space ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 20, 2015Microbiology
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Have you ever wondered how these guys find their bacterial &ldquo ...Written By: Kerry EvansOCT 16, 2015Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan fo ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 16, 2015Space & Astronomy
Going to Mars is something we Earthlings have wanted to do for centuries. By some estimates, we’ve had the necessa ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 14, 2015Technology
Boeing, the airplane manufacturing company that builds for massive air travel companies, claims to have created the worl ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 12, 2015Microbiology
Bacteria have the capacity to produce numerous substances for commercial and industrial applications. Despite this ...Written By: Kerry EvansOCT 09, 2015Earth & The Environment
As global warming keeps heating the planet, toxic algae blooms are becoming more and more of a problem. Last August, in ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 08, 2015Space & Astronomy
If NASA had decided to make a next generation of the space shuttle, it probably would have looked a lot like the Sierra ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 06, 2015Plants & Animals
The floods going on right now in South Carolina are big; cars are getting stuck in the floodwater, people are traveling ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 06, 2015Neuroscience
The nervous system in the human body is incredibly detailed and complex. From the tiniest neurons in the brain, to the s ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 02, 2015Videos
To err is human, but it's a real problem when it happens on a space mission. Over the years there have been several miss ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 02, 2015Chemistry & Physics
One of the biggest fears people have of flying on planes is that they’ll crash. When you’re up several thous ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
Most of the time when you see a rocket going off into space, whether it’s to launch a spacecraft into space, land ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2015Cancer
UC San Francisco scientists have developed a molecular “on switch” enabling tight control over the acti ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 29, 2015Genetics & Genomics
A scientific team including the scientist who first harnessed the CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has re ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 24, 2015Technology
When a British supercar broke the land speed record of 763 miles per hour in 1997, it inspired a team of engineers to fu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 22, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Duke University scientists have figured out the genetic code that instructs proteins to either self-assemble or disassem ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 22, 2015Neuroscience
Stem cells can create tissue models that reflect human physiology. These stem cell-derived models can be used in researc ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 22, 2015Genetics & Genomics
A modular system of proteins can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell and then trigger a specific response, such a ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 22, 2015Videos
Thanks to years of space engineering and discovery, astronauts blasting off to the International Space Station in space ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 17, 2015Earth & The Environment
Wind turbines are great for producing clean energy, but they have two major problems. The one you may be thinking of is ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 13, 2015Cancer
A team at the University of Pennsylvania reported that a multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped respondi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 10, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is keeping its eye on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the middle of the Asteroid Belt in between t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 09, 2015Microbiology
Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram positive, soil-dwelling bacterium. Like all Bacillus species, it is rod-shaped an ...Written By: Kerry Evans
OCT 22, 2015
Videos
Chris Hadfield is a man of many talents. Not only was he a Royal Air Force pilot and engineer, he also flew on two space
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 20, 2015
Microbiology
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Have you ever wondered how these guys find their bacterial &ldquo
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan fo
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Going to Mars is something we Earthlings have wanted to do for centuries. By some estimates, we’ve had the necessa
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 14, 2015
Technology
Boeing, the airplane manufacturing company that builds for massive air travel companies, claims to have created the worl
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 12, 2015
Microbiology
Bacteria have the capacity to produce numerous substances for commercial and industrial applications. Despite this
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 09, 2015
Earth & The Environment
As global warming keeps heating the planet, toxic algae blooms are becoming more and more of a problem. Last August, in
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 08, 2015
Space & Astronomy
If NASA had decided to make a next generation of the space shuttle, it probably would have looked a lot like the Sierra
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 06, 2015
Plants & Animals
The floods going on right now in South Carolina are big; cars are getting stuck in the floodwater, people are traveling
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 06, 2015
Neuroscience
The nervous system in the human body is incredibly detailed and complex. From the tiniest neurons in the brain, to the s
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 02, 2015
Videos
To err is human, but it's a real problem when it happens on a space mission. Over the years there have been several miss
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 02, 2015
Chemistry & Physics
One of the biggest fears people have of flying on planes is that they’ll crash. When you’re up several thous
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Most of the time when you see a rocket going off into space, whether it’s to launch a spacecraft into space, land
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2015
Cancer
UC San Francisco scientists have developed a molecular “on switch” enabling tight control over the acti
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 29, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A scientific team including the scientist who first harnessed the CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 24, 2015
Technology
When a British supercar broke the land speed record of 763 miles per hour in 1997, it inspired a team of engineers to fu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 22, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Duke University scientists have figured out the genetic code that instructs proteins to either self-assemble or disassem
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 22, 2015
Neuroscience
Stem cells can create tissue models that reflect human physiology. These stem cell-derived models can be used in researc
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 22, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A modular system of proteins can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell and then trigger a specific response, such a
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 22, 2015
Videos
Thanks to years of space engineering and discovery, astronauts blasting off to the International Space Station in space
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 17, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Wind turbines are great for producing clean energy, but they have two major problems. The one you may be thinking of is
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 13, 2015
Cancer
A team at the University of Pennsylvania reported that a multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped respondi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 10, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is keeping its eye on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the middle of the Asteroid Belt in between t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 09, 2015
Microbiology
Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram positive, soil-dwelling bacterium. Like all Bacillus species, it is rod-shaped an
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans