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Frankenfood Gets Supersized
For the first time, scientists have used genetic modification to increase the levels of multiple, rather than single, nutrients in a crop. The first corn produced through the technique hasn’t yet been...
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Laser-Controlled Humans Closer to Reality
Flashes of light may one day be used to control the human brain, and that day just got a lot closer. Using lasers, researchers at the MIT Media Lab were able to activate a specific set of neurons in a ...
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Record Amount of Supercomputer Time Means New Science
The Department of Energy is releasing a record amount of supercomputing time, 1.3 billion processor hours, which has astrophysicists, biologists and everyone in between drooling in anticipation....
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Time-Series Photos From Space of Aral Sea Death
The destruction of the Aral Sea is one of the great engineering disasters of the 20th century, a mistake on a scale so vast that photographs from space are needed to capture it. When Soviet officials...
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Massive Fake Quake Shakes 6-Story Condo
A massive simulated earthquake will rock a six-story wooden condominium to the brink of collapse Tuesday, during one of the largest shake-table experiments undertaken to date. The simulation, which...
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Istanbul Opens World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building
The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching across more than 2 million...
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New Global Map of Every Country’s Tallest Building
You can now see the tallest building in every country of the world on one big map, thanks to an obsessive documentarian of engineering accomplishments. The anonymous cartographer described the new map...
View ArticleVideo: Designing Bridges to Be Drivable After Quakes
RICHMOND, California — Sure, earthquake engineers can now make bridges safe during even the biggest earthquakes, but they’re still rendered unusable in the key hours after a temblor. Now, they have a...
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Video: Slime Mold Engineers the Motorways of Spain
For an example of sophisticated behavior in seemingly simple creatures -- or, conversely, to put human engineering in a new perspective -- witness the lowly slime mold.
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New Nanolens Breaks Resolution Record
A new kind of lens reaches an unprecedentedly sharp focus by giving up on being perfect. The lens is the first ever to help take visual light images of structures smaller than 100 nanometers (four...
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How to Tow a Building-Sized Iceberg
A French engineer wants to go to Antarctica, tie a big rope around a six-million-tonne iceberg, drag it back to Africa and melt it into fresh, drinkable water. See how it might happen in this gallery.
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Mother Nature as Engineer: 9 Design Tricks Borrowed From Biology
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Solved: The Aerodynamics of Super-Fast Jump Ropes
Thanks to an impressive athleticism, high-speed video and clever computer modeling, two researchers have unraveled the hidden aerodynamics behind the playful task of skipping over a speeding rope.
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World’s Smallest Steam Engine Is Size of Fog Droplet
Engineers have made a tiny engine a few micrometers wide, or roughly the size of a water droplet found in fog.
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How to Save Venice: Make It Float
Everyone knows that on a sinking ship, you want to pump water out. But what do you do with a sinking city? In this case, the plan might be to pump water in.
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Gorgeous Decay: The Second Death of the Swedish Warship Vasa
The Swedish Warship Vasa never made it out of Stockholm harbor. It sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, and nearly 400 years later, the ship is suffering a slow, inexorable decay in Sweden's Vasa Museum.
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