Engineering

You see it mentioned in countless phone commercials, and your phone might use it. But do you know how it works?

The tiny sensors could gather and transmit environmental data as they drift through the air

Members of the profession study such tragic events to try and ensure that something similar won’t happen again

Seawalls and levees may simply shift rising water elsewhere—often into disadvantaged communities

Apartment buildings, or blocks of row houses, can be upgraded in one installation

The 3-D tracking systems used in Tokyo may one day enable digital twins of athletes

Then it played Super Mario Bros.

A proposed fiber-optic cable could make it easier for scientists to transmit crucial climate data

But for now, a square meter of the building material holds roughly the energy of two AA batteries

The algorithm hides sensitive information in a sea of decoys

Water is added back in before consumption

To pin down causes of the structure's failure, investigators will probably gather its original design drawings, test its remains and run simulations of how well it could withstand forces