Engineering

Scientists used a fiery wind tunnel to find out how satellites break apart when they leave orbit and fall back to Earth.

Researchers say their measurements could help identify more hazards to submarine cables in the future.

Newsweek spoke to 17-year-old Jake McCluskey who built his own roller coaster in his mother's Virginia backyard. His viral video has amassed over 15 million views on TikTok.

The space telescope is extremely sensitive to heat, so engineers haven given it a sun shield is the size of a tennis court.

Events that, separately, are perfectly manageable, can create a dangerous interplay if they happen at the same time, triggering cascades of failure. And the new year may harbor a few of those.

STEM toys have real value. Meet the toymakers and brands who are lending a helping hand to science, technology, engineering and math education.

Two new reports show engineering concerns about Trump's privately-built border wall, which experts say is at risk of collapse.

Unless we make the investments needed in science and engineering, we will continue to suffer needless deaths and economic catastrophe on the scale of the COVID-19 crisis.

For the first time, the component has been proven to carry signals between neurons using very low power—which has been a major challenge in previous studies, the research team said.

Engineers around the world have a key role to play in tackling, right alongside their biomedical colleagues—from converting manufacturing lines to produce ventilators, to building entire hospitals at astonishing speed.

We are desperately short on engineers—but slow to remove obstacles that prevent talented women and members of ethnic minority groups from joining the profession.

The first year of rule was the deadliest for Roman emperors. The risk of meeting a violent end decreased over the next seven years, plateauing and then increasing again after 12 years.

The teaching of science, technology, engineering and math is critical for America to compete globally. And in order to educate the inventors, entrepreneurs and leaders of tomorrow, we must transform STEM education today.

As engineering systems become ever more complex and omnipresent, it is vital that the profession properly reflects the society it serves.

The research adds to the evidence that tests don't only measure how smart individuals are, but also other skills like perseverance and motivation, an expert told "Newsweek."

The material is considered to be two-dimensional because all of the atoms—which are laid out in two layers, one on top of the other—are surface atoms.

The wing can deform itself to adapt to different situations.

In the past decade, ten cargo ships and their crew have got lost at sea.

Mattel wants to inspire young girls who are interest in science, technology, math and engineering.

To date, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated more than $2 billion towards fighting malaria.

The new technology could potentially provide a solution for the problem of water scarcity in arid climates.

The thruster devours molecules it plucks from the air.

Imagine plants used as streetlights, illuminating work spaces and as desk lamps.

The discovery rewrites the history of early Chinese engineering.

The flexible sensor gives robots similar sensitivity to a human hand.

"To work with this administration in any capacity is to normalize it, and all of the hate and bigotry it represents," Reshma Saujani wrote in an op-ed.

Social stigma and gender stereotypes about studying STEM subjects are still holding back young women.

When the St. Francis Dam burst 88 years ago, 12.4 billion gallons of water rose 140 feet, surging 54 miles to the Pacific Ocean.

Students from ETH Zurich are developing an exoskeleton for paraplegics that will keep them from struggling on uneven terrain.

Slick when frozen, a silicone finish doesn't let ice stick.