Engineering

Plus, why some flat Earth enthusiasts claim forests aren't real. Seriously

Researchers have found that engineered sugarcane could yield more than 2,500 liters of bio-jet fuel per acre of land

Estimating cranberry harvests involves tedious hand-counting. But microwave analysis could change all that. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Software lets scientists explore the brain in 3-D and perform “virtual dissections”

Some 2,500 youngsters from 66 countries brought to Costa Rica robots designed to solve sustainability challenges

Don’t crack under pressure! Explore the scientific—and sometimes sleazy—secrets to win a wish at this year’s Thanksgiving wishbone pull.

Jobs are not created or lost because of a single technology, but because of the business models designed to leverage the power of the technology

The agency’s Space Launch System is intended to take astronauts to the Moon and beyond

Quadcopter crashes with a helicopter and plane—the first-ever in the U.S. and Canada, respectively—show that such encounters are no longer hypothetical

SETI pioneer Jill Tarter and Berkeley researcher Dan Werthimer talk about how the discovery of nearby exoplanets is inspiring new efforts to gain info about these galactic neighbors.  

Much of the necessary technology already exists

Scientists used muons, a by-product of cosmic rays, to image the interior of the Great Pyramid—and found a previously unknown space inside. Christopher Intagliata reports.