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Engineering
Fracture Mechanics: How Engineers Predict When Cracks Fail
Fracture mechanics is the engineering discipline that predicts how cracks in materials grow under stress and when that growth leads to failure.
Desalination: How Salt Water Becomes Fresh
Desalination removes dissolved salts from seawater or brackish water to produce fresh water for drinking, agriculture, and industry.
Biomimetic Materials Design: How Nature Builds Better
Biomimetic materials design is the practice of studying structures in living organisms and using those principles to engineer synthetic materials that replicate nature's...
Atmospheric Water Harvesting: Pulling Drinking Water from Thin Air
Atmospheric water harvesting captures moisture from air and converts it to liquid water, using methods from ancient fog nets to modern sorbent materials...
Thermal Expansion in Materials
Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to change in volume in response to a change in temperature.
Supersonic Shockwave Physics
Supersonic shockwave physics involves the study of shockwaves generated when an object moves through a medium at speeds exceeding the speed of sound.
Oliver Heaviside: The Self-Taught Genius Who Solved Signal Transmission
How a self-taught recluse derived the equations that still govern every undersea cable carrying internet traffic today.
AI Beats Human Experts at Identifying Scotch vs American Whiskey
German researchers built an algorithm that identifies Scotch from American whiskey better than trained experts – without tasting a drop.
