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It took nearly 6,400 years to go from the simple wheel to the first automobile, but only two decades from the first car to roll off the assembly line to the first aircraft to take to the skies. Such rapid developments in quality of life can only be attributed to the human spirit, an unstoppable force always in pursuit of improvement. Join Modern Sciences in celebrating the spirit of human ingenuity through its engineering feats.
Snug but unsafe: your heater may be harming your health. What are your safest choices?
Alexander Raths/Shutterstock Christine Cowie, UNSW Sydney and Bill Dodd, University of Tasmania We now have a dizzying array…
TB: gene editing could add new power to a 100-year-old vaccine
Bavesh Kana, University of the Witwatersrand Tuberculosis dates back more than 9,000 years. It is the most infectious…
If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNA
Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock Sam McKee, Manchester Metropolitan University When considering human settlements on the Moon, Mars and further…
Flying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter in flight. Vlad Lazarenko/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Edward C. Smith, Penn State Helicopters draw…
How a futuristic material is able to change its properties from soft to rigid, and back again
Materials that can change their physical properties would be suitable for many purposes. (Shutterstock) Damiano Pasini, McGill University…
The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider. Maximilien Brice/CERN, CC BY-SA Riccardo Maria Bianchi,…
The science behind splashdown − an aerospace engineer explains how NASA and SpaceX get spacecraft safely back on Earth
The Orion capsule from NASA’s Artemis I mission splashes down. NASA via AP Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of…
The Power Grid
The power grid operates on alternating current (AC), where voltage and current oscillate in cycles. Reactive loads, such…
Engineering a Stealth Aircraft
Equipped with precision-guided weapons like GPS and laser-guided missiles, the F-117 operated as a subsonic bomber capable of…
Hydropower damages river systems in Africa: how more solar and wind power can solve this problem
Angelo Carlino, Carnegie Science; Andrea Castelletti, Polytechnic University of Milan, and Rafael Schmitt, Stanford University Across the African…