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Project Hyperion Recently Announced the Winners of the Generational Ship Competition

Catwell — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:35:21 GMT

The Project Hyperion competition had hundreds of entrants, with three chosen recently. (Image Credit: i4is) Project Hyperion and the UK-based Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) launched a $10,000 competition to design Generational ships usin...(read more)

Heat Exposure Can Affect Students' Ability to Learn, and The Rest of Us?

Catwell — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:00:00 GMT

(Image credit: Pixabay) It all makes sense now! Engineering, designing on hot summer days never working out as planned. The summer slowdowns. That feeling of wading through molasses. A new study published by Konstantina Vasilakopoulou (Royal Melbour...(read more)

The History of Video Games Is Now Available Through a Digital Library

Catwell — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:21:27 GMT

The Video Game History Foundation built a video game digital library for the public to access and study. (Image Credit: Video Game History Foundation) There are tens of thousands of video game industry ephemera files that video game enthusiasts can&...(read more)

Celebrating 100 Years of Women Engineers and Electricity in the Home with Electric Dreams 2024

Catwell — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:20:42 GMT

The first issue of The Electric Age Journal published by the Electrical Association of Women in 1926. (Image credit: The Institute of Engineering and Technology) In the early 1920s, electricity became widespread across the UK and was beginning to be...(read more)

Researchers Claim EMF Can Enhance an Individual's Flow State in the Brain

Catwell — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:20:00 GMT

(Image Credit: Loaivat/pixabay) We're always looking for a shortcut to hard work. Maybe this is the one. Researchers at Laurentian University have conducted a study in which they subjected individuals' brains to EMF, enhancing flow---a menta...(read more)

Statue of Christa McAuliffe Unveiled at New Hampshire State House Grounds

Catwell — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:36:33 GMT

Christa McAuliffe gets a preview of microgravity during a flight aboard NASA's KC-135 "zero gravity" aircraft (Image Credit: NASA) On September 2nd, a Christa McAuliffe bronze statue was revealed in Concord, New Hampshire, honoring NAS...(read more)

Unexplained Engineering Mysteries: More Tech Utilized in the Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster

Catwell — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:29:55 GMT

What is “Unexplained Engineering Mysteries?” It’s simply a title for lighter side of the news articles. (The title is a bit of a misnomer. Why? Because us engineers would solve these mysteries. That’s what we do.) Image credi...(read more)

Unexplained Engineering Mysteries: Team Uses Surveying Equipment to Detect the Loch Ness Monster

Catwell — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:17:25 GMT

John B. Goodenough, Inventor Of Lithium-Ion Battery, Has Died At 100 Years Old

Catwell — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:32:21 GMT

Goodenough helped develop the lithium-ion battery. (Image Credit: The University of Texas at Austin) The University of Texas at Austin announced that lithium-ion battery inventor John B. Goodenough, 100 years old, passed away on June 25th. He ...(read more)

WW2 Codebreakers to Be Recognized with Plaque In St. Paul

Catwell — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:05:03 GMT

Codebreakers during the war. (via Wikicommons) On June 15th, St. Paul, Minnesota, expects to be recognized as an origin of modern computer technology thanks to WWII codebreakers. The group called the Engineering Research Associates (ERA), lasted six...(read more)

NASA's UAP Investigation Lackluster in Its Findings

Catwell — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:59:36 GMT

Experts found the evidence collected so far doesn't point to alien activity, only unidentified metallic orbs. (Image credit: NASA via YouTube) It's hard to believe we spend money of stuff like this. In June of last year (2022), NASA gathered...(read more)

Two High School Students Present New Proof For Pythagoras' Theorem

Catwell — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:41:43 GMT

Two high school students presented their Pythagoras' Theorem proof on March 18th at the American Mathematical Society's Annual Southeastern Conference. (Image Credit: WWL) Two 17-year-old New Orleans high school students say they have solved...(read more)

Peter Scott-Morgan - The world's first human cyborg passed away at 64 years old

Catwell — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:01:00 GMT

Peter Scott-Morgan, the world's first human cyborg, passed away after his 5-year battle with ALS. (Image Credit: Facebook/Peter Scott-Morgan) English scientist Dr. Peter Scott Morgan, the world's first human cyborg, tragically passed away af...(read more)

Remembering early pioneers Stephen Wilhite and John Roach

Catwell — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:58:00 GMT

(Image credit: Getty Images) On March 14, 2022, Stephen Wilhite, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) creator and computer scientist, passed away due to COVID-19 complications. He was 74 and in the presence of family members at the hospital. His ...(read more)

Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition foundation gives $1 million to black-owned startup Livegistics

Catwell — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:31:00 GMT

Black Ambition aims to give support and guidance to Latinx and black owned startups. Livegistics founders Andre Davis and Justin Turk. (Photo from Kai Davis) Pharrell Williams is known for his impressive musical resume. He’s worked w...(read more)