Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. In the third episode of the third season of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we see how Y.Y.’s brilliance helped make Project Apollo a success...
While international experts try to figure out what caused the ruptures in the Nord Stream pipeline, engineers have multiple options to try and fix it
Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. In the second episode of the newest season of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we see Y.Y.’s true grit as she fights for recognition and a place at the science table...
Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. The third season of the Lost Women of Science podcast begins at the start of her story, during her unconventional childhood in the segregated South...
Booster shots for smallpox, molten moonglow
A new resin can hold fiberglass wind turbines together for years and then be recycled into valuable products, making green energy even greener
Building the ultimate sandcastle
A new stick-on ultrasound patch can record the activity of hearts, lungs and other organs for 48 hours at a time
A new disposable battery is made of paper and other sustainable materials and is activated with a few drops of water
It’s not that they aren’t interested; it’s the culture of these fields and how they exclude women and girls
Fiery tests can assess new prototypes of portable shelters, the last line of defense for wildland firefighters
A new cilia-covered chip could revolutionize portable medical diagnosis
To safeguard fragile cultural objects, some groups are replicating them with digital models
The coating deters microorganisms to fight both food waste and foodborne illness
The design’s origami pattern creates the flexibility needed to deliver compounds to specific areas of the body
A two-part competition aims to spark innovation and connect the groups trying to redesign high-quality masks that protect against COVID
A system could aid forensic searches and crime-scene mapping by detecting reflections from human materials
We need to protect vulnerable people from killer heat without destroying the environment
Complex social information can be felt through a virtual touch
To propel itself higher than any known engineered jumper or animal can, it had to ignore the limits of biology
