Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Mary Lord
Count NASA engineers among the soccer fans following the 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil this summer. They’re not only students of “the beautiful game” but also of technologies like the Brazuca football whose aerodynamic properties give players an edge.
Photo credit: NASA’s Ames Research Center
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Tags: aerodynamics, Aerospace, Ames Research Center, ball, Brazil, Brazuca, fluid dynamics, NASA, soccer, Sports, Technology, World Cup
Posted on April 28th, 2014 by Mary Lord
In the man-against-machine smackdown, humans remain ahead. But for how long? World Table Tennis champion Timo Boll matched wits against “the fastest robot on Earth” to find out.
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Tags: Industrial / Manufacturing, industrial engineering, man v machine, Mechanical Engineering, ping pong, Robotics, table tennis, Timo Boll
Posted on April 23rd, 2014 by Mary Lord
Special Feature by Guy Wilkins
Hate playing scales or doing fitness drills? In the not-so-distant future, the hours of repetitive practice necessary to learn a musical instrument, new sport, or dance may be a relic of the past. Lara Boyd, a researcher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, believes a promising new technology called magnetic brain stimulation could cut the practice time required to learn a new motor skill.
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Tags: Lara Boyd, learning, magnetic brain stimulation, motor skill, thinking cap, transcranial brain stimulation, University of British Columbia
Posted on April 23rd, 2014 by Mary Lord
Engineers often seek ways to improve something that really bugs them. For Missouri high school seniors Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson, that something was the watery ketchup that first squirts from the bottle – and they designed a device to solve the problem.
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Tags: 3-D printing, engineering design, high school inventors, ketchup, Mechanical Engineering, Project Lead the Way
Posted on November 27th, 2013 by Mary Lord
Do you love the idea of time travel, cyborgs or other far-fetched technology from fantasy literature and the movies? Today’s scientists and engineers are discovering ways to make these ideas become reality – and you can, too. Check out the Kavli “Science in Fiction” video contest. Entry period runs until March 21, 2014.
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Tags: Competitions for Students, Contest, Kavli Science in Fiction contest, science fiction, video contest
