Engineering

Updated version of DeepMind’s AlphaGo program was behind a mystery online competitor  

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

Greater utility and more luxury

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 30, 1916

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.