What Happens After You Flush: How Wastewater Treatment Plants Transform Sewage Into Safe Water (www.popularmechanics.com)
The water from your toilet doesn’t just empty into the Atlantic Ocean like you saw in Finding Nemo.
Fully Charged in Just 6 Minutes – Groundbreaking Technique Could Revolutionize EV Charging (scitechdaily.com)
Typically, it takes around 10 hours to charge an electric vehicle. Even with fast-charging techniques, you're still looking at a minimum of 30 minutes – and that's if there's an open spot at a charging station.
Atmospheric water harvesting: can we get water out of thin air? (engineering.purdue.edu)
Earth’s atmosphere holds six times more fresh water than all of its rivers combined. So is it possible to harvest that water, in areas where people have no other fresh water source? Purdue University researchers have crunched the numbers, and have the data to show which atmospheric water harvesting methods work best in...
‘Distilling’ Outdated Software Could Save Defense Dept. Millions in Time and Money (coe.gatech.edu)
Brendan Saltaformaggio leads a $10M DARPA-funded effort to update critical defense software.
China's Ancient Water Pipes Show People Mastered Complex Engineering Without The Need For A Centralized State Authority - Ancient Pages (www.ancientpages.com)
A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority, finds a new study.
Inside the US military lab that makes tube food for spy plane pilots (www.popsci.com)
Pilots in U-2 spy planes rely on food in tubes for their in-flight meals. Here's how this cuisine is made, and what it tastes like.
Two ancient materials may help solve a modern energy dilemma (www.popsci.com)
The new superconductor is made from cement and carbon black could one day power homes and charge EVs on the road.
Making of LinnStrument (youtu.be)
Roger Linn talks about how he created LinnStrument.
Scientists accidentally capture metals 'healing' themselves (www.popsci.com)
Materials scientists witnessed metals—in this case copper and platinum—undergoing the process of 'intrinsic self-healing.'
Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia Basin [Scrapbook] (www.digitalarchives.wa.gov)
Washington State Archives, Digital Archives is the first Digital Archives in the nation to Preserve the electronic Records of both State and Local Government.
Redondo Beach engineers ‘push the envelope’ with James Webb Space Telescope (www.audacy.com)
The Webb spacecraft, the most powerful space telescope ever built, was designed and manufactured in Redondo Beach by Northrop Grumman. The corporation is one of the largest aerospace employers in Los Angeles County, with more than 10,000 employees across the region....
Tear-resistant rubbery materials could pave the way for tougher tires (www.sciencenews.org)
Adding easy-to-break molecular connectors surprisingly makes materials harder to tear and could one day reduce microplastic pollution from car tires.
[11:53] Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained (vid.puffyan.us)
Bill reveals the long-lost methods used by Medieval engineers to design stone cathedrals. Methods that required no science, mathematics, or literacy, yet which reveal the engineering method.
[Rachel Kroll] Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer" (rachelbythebay.com)
I think it goes something like this: you start from the assumption that when you see something, you wonder why it is the way it is. Then maybe you observe it and maybe do a little research to figure out how it came to be the thing you see in front of you.