Engineering

Genetically engineered coral, electronic wildlife sniffers, sand mines and more

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 23, 1916

A billionaire-funded plan aims to send a probe to another star. But can it be done?

Gordon Briggs, a postdoc at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, talks about the article he and Matthias Scheutz, director of the Human Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts University, wrote in the January Scientific American titled "The Case for Robot Disobedience."

Shift in focus comes in response to a changing world order and the threat of terrorism

How Dartmouth became one of the first national research universities to a graduate a majority-female class of engineers 

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 16, 1916

Researchers put a tiny ice rink on a tipping platform to measure how much grip winter boots really have.

Artificial-intelligence algorithms can learn a lot from playing immersive 3D video games

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 9, 1916

Some hints on keeping holiday gifts real in a “post-truth” world

Understanding the physics of how a liquid splashes when it hits a surface is allowing researchers to design new surfaces that limit splashing